Yeats' grave    (intro) (midi)    (sample)

 

    Am - G - Em       Am - G - Em

 

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1.     Silenced by death in a grave, la la la la,

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    W. B. Yeats couldn't save, la la la la.

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    Why did you stand here, were you sickened in time ?

 

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    But I know by now. Why did you sit here ? Aha!

    G         Am     - G             Am  G    Am

    In the grave,         in the gra – ha - have,

    G         Am     - G           Am   G   Am    G      Am      - G - Em

    In the grave,        in the gra – ha – ha – ha - have.

 

                 Dm                                Em

(Spoken: )      Why should I blame her,    

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    that she filled my days with misery, or that she would of late

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    have taught to ignore men with those violent ways,

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    or hurled the little twigs upon the grave,

    Am

    had they but courage equal to desire.

 

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2.     Sad that Maud Gonne couldn't stay, da da da da,

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    but she had MacBride anyway ah.

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    And you sit here with me on the isle Inistree

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    and your writing down everything.  + CHORUS

 

(capo 3rd)       

 

    (The Cranberries)