Cemetry Gates Chords

by The Smiths
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: no capo
Author OohImthetabsman [pro] 42.
2 contributors total, last edit on Mar 12, 2020
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Chords

Dsus2
C
G
D
Em
Bm
F

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Here is my improvement on busrday's tab for this song. I noticed a few things while playing through it.
When changing from C to G there is very often a Dsus2 in there that is missed out,
the intro can simply be played as:
             Dsus2
   C         ^ G
e--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--
b--1-1-1-1-1-3-0-0-0-0--
g--0-0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-0--
d--2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0-0--
a--3-3-3-3-3-x-2-2-2-2--
e--x-x-x-x-x-x-3-3-3-3--
 
Dsus2 can be lazily played as:
e--x--
b--3--         ...though admittedly this doesn't sound as good as
g--0--         Dsus2, but it's far easier to play at speed, enjoy.
d--0--
a--x--
e--x--
 
[Intro]
C   Dsus2 G
C   Dsus2 G
C   Dsus2 G
C   D   G
 
G
A dreaded sunny day
                                C
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
            D           Em       D   C Dsus2
Keats and Yeats are on your side
G
A dreaded sunny day
                                C
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
            D           Em       D   C D C
Keats and Yeats are on your side
        D          G
While Wilde is on mine
 
G                                         C
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
                             D
All those people all those lives
              Em D C Dsus2
Where are they now?
       G
With loves, with hates
                        C
And passions just like mine
 
They were born
                D
And then they lived
             Em D C D C
And then they died
 
Which seems so unfair
D              G
And I want to cry
 
               Bm
You say: "ere thrice the sun hath door
                   G
Salutation to the dawn"
         Bm                        G
And you claim these words as your own
     C                   D
But I'm well read, have heard them said
           Em                       F
A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
 
       G
If you must write prose and poems
                                  C
The words you use should be your own
                     D     Em D C Dsus2
Don't plagiarise or take on loan
                  G
There's always someone, somewhere
                       C
With a big nose, who knows
                           D
And who trips you up and laughs
        Em D C D C
When you fall
                         D
Who'll trip you up and laugh
          G
When you fall
 
               Bm                G
You say: "ere long done do does did"
 Bm                             G
Words which could only be your own
     C
You then produce the text
       D
From whence was ripped
             Em        F
(some dizzy whore, 1804)
 
            G
A dreaded sunny day
 
So let's go where we're happy
                                C
And I meet you at the cemetery gates
            D           Em       D C Dsus2
Keats and Yeats are on your side
            G
A dreaded sunny day
 
So let's go where we're wanted
                                 C
And I meet you at the cemetery gates
            D           Em       D C    D  C
Keats and Yeats are on your side - but you lose
        D          G  C  G
While Wilde is on mine
 
[Outro]
C   Dsus2 G
C   Dsus2 G
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3 comments
mohnnyjarr
At the end of both the 'You say' Bm bridge sections, I think the last chord should be F not C. Otherwise great job :)
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cltw1211
thanks very much
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