Key: G major•
Verse 1
G
D
Em
Bb
D
G
D
G
Do we kill
D
G
ourselves on purpose?
Am
C
D
Are we dying for a reason?
G
D
G
Is our misery all our own?
C#dim
C
C#dim
Are the people suicidal?
G
Em
Ebdim
Em
Did we come this far to die?
A
Em
Am
Em
Of ourselves are we to perish?
Am
D
G
For this useless, worthless lie?
Verse 2
D
G
D
My father wore a crown
G
Em
They said he was an awful man
A
Am
D
G
He tried to live it down
My father built us houses
D
Am
D
And he kept his folks inside
G
D
C
Em
His im ages were stolen
A
D
G
D
And his beauty was denied.
Verse 3
G
D
G
My brothers are unhappy
D
G
D
C#dim
And my sisters they are too
Em
C
Em
And my mother cries for glory
Am
D
G
And my father stands accused.
E
D
My
Verse 4
G
D
G
father, yes my father
Eb
G
D
A
Was a brave and skillful man
G
E
And he led and served his people
Em
Am
D
G
D
With the magic of his hand.
Verse 5
G
Em
D
My father, yes my father
Am
A
Em
D
G
His soul was sorely tried
D
G
'Cause his images were stolen
Am
D
G
And his beauty was denied.
Verse 6
D
G
Sometimes the river's
calling
And sometimes the shadows fall
E
G
That's when he's like a mountain
Am
D
G
That is in mas ter over all.
Am
G
This story
Verse 7
G
Em
D
Is the one I tell and give
G
D
G
It's the power and the glory
D
G
D
G
Of the life I make and live
Verse 8
G
D
G
D
My father has a kingdom
Am
E
And he lives within the people
Am
D
G
And the lives he handed down
D
G
C
My father has a kingdom
D
G
D
G
My father wears a crown
D
G
D
Em
And through the spirit of my mother,
G
Em
Lord
D
G
C
G
Em
D
A
Am
G
C
D
Em
G
C#dim
D
E
D
Am
The crown was handed down.
D
G
D
G
Em
C
Am
F#
D
G
C
D
C
F#dim
Am
C
D
G
D
G
C
Em
G
D
G
F#
G
A
Am
D
(musical interlude)
Verse 9
D
G
D
G
Well sometimes the
D
Eb
rivers callin'
A
G
A
G
C
D
Eb
And sometimes the shadows fall
Abdim
G
a moun tain
C
D
That's a master over all.
Verse 10
E
D
E
And he lives within the people
D
A
Am
D
And the lives he handed down
G
D
My father has a kingdom
G
D
G
My father wears a crown
D
G
E
D
G
Through the spirit of my mother,
Lord
D
G
D
The crown was handed down
G
E
Through the spirit of my mother
Bb
E
Am
D
G
The crown was handed down
D
G
E
Through the spirit of my mother, Lord
Am
D
The crown was handed down!
G
G
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