The Black Plague chords by 
Eric Burdon & The Animals 
N/A
Key: E minor•
Verse 1
Em
Bm
G
Bm
Em
Bm
G
Ohohohohoh
Bm
Em
Bm
G
Bm
Em
Bm
G
Em
Bm
Em
Bm
Em
(Gregorian chants)
Verse 2
Em
The bell tolls
E
Em
E
The black plague has struck
Diseased eyes roll upwards
Em
E
As if knowing which direction
Em
E
their souls will travel
Em
E
(Bring out your dead)
A woman in black cries
Em
As the deathly pro cession passes by
E
Em
And monks moan en masse
Verse 3
Em
Ohohohohohoh
E
(Gregorian chants)
Em
The yet clean peasant pounds
E
Em
upon the castle door
For it is safer inside the wall
E
Em
s
E
Their knocking pounds a dull tone across the quiet,
deserted courtyard
Em
E
The bodies of unfortuates bloat in the hot
sun outside the castle walls
Em
And ones ignorant of all facts plunder the diseased
E
Em
corpses for remaining riches.
E
(Bring out your dead)
Em
And the bell tolls on
E
Verse 4
Em
A man walk s around the castle
walls on the outside
The light from his lamp dancing
E
Em
shadows as he moves
E
He tends the sick
Em
E
Em
Gives comfort to all he can for dy ing
E
Em
woman and crying man
E
But he feels it most for the children
Em
E
Em
E
Em
(Unclean)
E
Tears glisten on his cheek
Em
E
Did man ever deserve this death?
Em
E
Em
And not all will die, just the poor
For the rich are inside
D
E
Em
the castle wall s
D
E
And he knows he could be with them
And they laugh at this fool
of a man
Em
Through the stone fortress windows
E
Em
E
Em
E
And the bell tolls
Em
on
E
Em
Verse 5
(Unclean)
And many deaths and many
E
days later
Many tears have been cry cried but in vain
Em
E
For tears can never erase
Em
the pain of death
E
Em
Only time has that talent
E
His hands are now blistered
Em
but this man walks on
E
Em
The only element of sanity that the people look
to him for answers and he answers all
E
A
And the bell tolls on inside
Em
E
Em
the castle wall
E
Em
E
Em
(Bring out your
E
dead)
Verse 6
Em
The dead are now buried and the plague
E
is at its en d
Em
E
Em
E
Life for the people flowers again
Em
They breathe fresh air like they
E
Em
did once before
E
And there is not a sound from beyond
Em
the castle walls
E
The bell has stopped
And only silence is heard
G
And the peasants outside
wonder what happened within
In their bones they feel
something is wrong
The bell has been silent
E
much too long
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G
For many days not one soul has stirred from the stone
E
fort ress where the rich people live
A
G
No one came and no one went
G
A
Fear can do many strange thing s
G
And even though wa ter ran low
Their mouths burnt and bellys caked dry
Not one person put a foot outside
No one had that much courage
For they feared the peasants
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and their world out side
So they played it safe and
Em
did n't move
E
Em
But one by one they perished and died
Outro 1
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Em
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G
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Bm
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