Cemetry Gates Chords

[Intro]
D  (the single strummed note in the beginning)
C   G  C   G
C   G  C  D  G
 
[Chorus]
G
A dreaded sunny day
      G                          C
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
C           D          Em       D   C
Keats and Yeats are on your side
G
A dreaded sunny day
     G                          C
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
C           D          Em       D   C
Keats and Yeats are on your side
C     D           G
While Wilde is on mine
 
[Verse 1]
G                     G                  C
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
          C                  D
All those people all those lives
           Em    D
Where are they now?
C       G
  With loves, with hates
    G                   C
And passions just like mine
          C                   D
They were born, and then they lived
              Em      D   C
And then they died,
         C       D         G
Seems so unfair, I want to cry
 
[Verse 2]
         Bm
You say, "'ere thrice the sun done
                   G
Salutation to the dawn"
         Bm                        G
And you claim these words as your own
 C                      D
But I've well read, have heard them said
          Em                      F
A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
       G
If you must write prose and poems
    G                             C
The words you use should be your own
      C              D    Em    D   C
Don't plagiarize or take "on loan"
               G
There's always someone, somewhere
       G                C
With a big nose, who knows
    C                      D
And who trips you up and laughs
         Em   D  C
When you fall
       C                 D
Who'll trip you up and laugh
          G
When you fall
 
[Bridge]
          Bm                  G
You say, "'ere long done do does did"
 Bm                             G
Words which could only be your own
  C
And then produce the text
     D
From whence was ripped
            Em                         F
Some dizzy whore, eighteen hundred and four
 
[Chorus]
G
A dreaded sunny day, so let's go where we're happy
      G                          C
And I meet you at the cemetery gates
C           D          Em       D   C
Keats and Yeats are on your side
G
A dreaded sunny day, so let's go where we're wanted
      G                          C
And I meet you at the cemetery gates
C           D          Em       D         C
Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose
     C             D           G
'Cos whale blubber Wilde is on mine
 
[Outro]
C   G  C   G
C   G  C   G  (slowly fading)
C   G  C   G
C   G  C   G
C   G  C   G
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