Key: Bb major
Intro 1
F#
C#
D#m
F#
B
C#sus4
F#
Verse 1
C#
D#m
B
young man loses his life
C#
F#
C#
They marked the shoulder with a cross
F#
A#m
B
An' his family gathers round
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A#
D#m
On a piece of Hal lowed
B
ground
C#sus4
C#
D#m
their loss
C#
B
As the tears fall from their eyes
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D#m
There's one who'll al
C#
B
C#
F#
ways sympathise.
Verse 2
D#m
living
F#
B
'Cause it's the living that are
C#
F#
C#
F#
left to carry on
C#
D#m
An' all the an gels up in Heaven
F#
B
They're not grieving because
C#sus4
C#
they're gone
their faces
F#
C#
'Cause they're in a better place than,
B
A#m
G#m
B
C#
F#
mmm, baby, than, oh
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F#
D#m
F#
God only cries for the living
C#
F#
that are so far from home.
Verse 3
A#m
B
It still makes me sad
C#
D#m
When I think of my Grand- dad
B
C#
F#
C#
I miss him each and every day
F#
B
But I know the time will come
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A#
D#m
A#m
When my own
C#sus4
C#
Wonders why I went away
D#m
C#
B
Maybe we're not meant to understand
C#
D#m
C#
Till we meet up in
B
C#
F#
the Promised Land.
Verse 4
D#m
F#
living
B
C#
'Cause it's the living that are left
F#
C#sus4
C#
F#
to carry on
C#
D#m
And all the an gels up in Heaven
C#sus4
C#
B
They're not grieving because
C#sus4
C#
they're gone
B
F#
G#m
B
C#
F#
oh, baby, than oh
C#
D#m
God only cries for the living
F#
B
'Cause it's the living
C#
D#m
C#
that are so far from home
B
C#
Yeah, we're so far from home,
B
F#
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