La Colombe chords by Judy Collins
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Intro 1
(E minor) (E major) (E minor) (A major) (E minor) (A major) (E minor) (E major)
(E minor)
Verse 1
Why (E minor)
all these bugles crying
For squads of young men drilled
(A minor) To kill and to be killed
Stood waiting by this train? (E minor)
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Verse 2
Why the orders (E minor) loud and hoarse?
Why the engine's groaning cough (A minor)
As it strains to drag us off
Into the holocaust? (F major)
Verse 3
Why crowds (F major) who sing and cry (E major) (Bdim)
And shout and fling (E major) us flower (C sharpdim) s
And trade their right for ours (F sharp major)
To murder an (B major) d to die?
Verse 4
(A major) The dove has torn her wings
so no more (D major) songs of love
(A major) We are not here to sing
We're here (E minor) to kill the dove
Verse 5
(E minor)
Why has this moment come
When childhood has to die
(A major) When hope (A minor) shrinks to a (E major) sigh (A minor)
And speech into a drum? (E minor)
Verse 6
Why are they (E minor) pale and still
Young boys trained overnight (A minor)
Conscripts forced to fight
And dressed in gray (F major) to kill?
Verse 7
These rain clouds (F major) massing tight (E major)
This train (Bdim) load battle bound (E minor)
(C sharpdim) This moving burial ground
(F sharp major) Sent thundering toward (B major) the night (A major)
Verse 8
The dove has torn (A major) her wings
so no more (D major) songs of love
(A major) We are not here to sing
We're here to (E minor) kill the dove
Verse 9
(E minor)
Why statues towering brave
Above the last defeat (A minor)
Old words and lies repeat
Across the new made grave? (E minor)
Verse 10
Why (E minor) the same still birth
That victory always brought (A minor)
These hours of glory bought
By men with mouths (F major) of earth?
Verse 11
Dead ash (F major) without a spark (E major) (Bdim)
Where cities (E major) used to be (F sharp major)
For guns probe every light
And crush it in the dark (B major)
Verse 12
(A major) The dove has torn her wings
so no more (D major) songs of love
(A major) We are not here to sing
We're here to kill the dove
(E minor)
Verse 13
(E minor) And why your face undone
With jagged lines of tears (A minor)
That gave in those first years
All peace I (E minor) ever won?
Verse 14
Your body in the gloom (E minor)
The platform fading back (A minor)
Your shadow on the track
A flower (F major) on a tomb
Verse 15
And why these days ahead (E major)
(Bdim) When I must let you cry
(C sharpdim) And live prepared to die
(F sharp major) As if our love (B major) were dead?
Verse 16
(A major) The dove has torn her wings so
no more (D major) songs of love
(A major) We are not here to sing
Outro 1
We're here to kill the dove
(E minor) (A major) (E minor) (E minor)
La Colombe
Judy Collins
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