The Black Angel's Death Song original guitar chords by 
The Velvet Underground 
Key: C major
Intro 1
C
Dm7
D7
C
Verse 1
Dm7
C
Set themselves out upon a plate
Dm7
C
all covered with sleep
Dm7
C
Where the Black Angel did weep,
Dm7
C
D7
not an old city street in the east
C
C
Gone to choose
Verse 2
Dm7
C
walked on through the night
Dm7
C
With his hair in his face
Dm7
C
D7
on a long splintered cut from the knife
C
C
Of GT
Dm7
C
ran on through the dawn
Dm7
C
D7
Until we said, "So long" to his skull
Dm7
C
and redlined with the time
Dm7
C
Dm7
Infused with the choice of the mind
C
D7
on ice skates scraping chunks
C
C
From the bells
Dm7
D7
C
C
(tsshh)
Verse 3
C
Dm7
C
Cut mouth bleeding razors, forgetting the pain
Dm7
C
D7
Antiseptic remains cool, good buy
C
Dm7
C
D7
So you fly to the cozy brown snow of the east
C
C
(tsshh)
Verse 4
C
Dm7
C
Sacrificials remain make it hard to forget
C
Dm7
C
D7
the stools of your eyes serve to realize fame
Dm7
C
of the sacrilege recluse
Dm7
C
For the loss of a horse
Dm7
C
D7
With the bowels and a tail of a rat
C
C
(tsshh)
Verse 5
Dm7
C
reduced you to shame
Dm7
C
Have your head bobbed and weaved
D7
C
Choose a side to be on
Dm7
C
split didactics in two
Dm7
C
Leave the color of the mouse trails,
Dm7
C
D7
don't scream, try between If you choose
C
Dm7
If you choose, try to lose
C
Dm7
For the loss of remain come and start
I-che-che
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