Cemetry Gates Chords
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Difficulty: | beginner |
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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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First submission so be nice,
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

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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thanks very much
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