I Saw The Vision Of Armies chords by Joan Baez
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Verse 1
(G major) (C major) I saw the vision of (G major) armies;
And I saw, (C major) as in noise (D major) less dreams,
hundreds of battle- (G major) flags,
(C major) Borne (G major) through the smoke of the battles
and pierced with mis (D major) siles, I saw them,
(G major) And carried, hither and (C major) yon through the (C sharp major) smoke,
and (G major) torn and (E minor) bloody
And at (C major) last but a few shreds of 'the flags left on the staffs,
(and all in (G major) silence,)
And the staffs (E minor) all splintered
and (G major) broken. (D major)
I saw battle- (C major) corpses, myriads of them,
Verse 2
(D major)
And the white skeletons
of young men, I saw them
(D minor) I saw the debris (D major) and
(D minor) debris of all dead (C sharp major) soldiers,
(D major) But (C major) I saw they were not as was
thought (D major)
(D minor) They themselves were fully at (D major) rest, they suffered (C major) not
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Verse 3
(D major)
The liv (C sharp major) ing remained and (D minor) suffered,
(C major) the mother suffered,
And the wife and the child and the musing comrade suffered,
(D minor) And the armies (C sharp major) that remained
suffered.. (D major) (C major) (D major)
(C major) (G major) (D major)
(C major)
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