the letters chords by King Crimson

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
With quill and silver  (E minor) 
B 
Em 
C 
Em 
 (B major) knife  (E minor)  (C major)  (E minor) 
C 
Em 
Am 
Em 
She carved  (C major) a  pois (E minor) on pen  (A minor)  (E minor) 
Wrote to her lover's wife
B 
 (B major) "Your husband's seed
Em 
has  (E minor) fed  my flesh"

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Verse 2

As if a leper's face

That tainted letter graced

The wife with choke-stone throat

throat

Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes

Interlude 1
Em 
D 
 (E minor)  (D major) 
Em 
D 
 (E minor)  (D major) 
C 
Em 
B 
Am 
Em 
 (C major)  (E minor)  (B major)  (A minor)  (E minor) 
C 
Em 
C 
B 
Am 
D 
Em 
 (C major)  (E minor)  (C major)  (B major)  (A minor)  (D major)  (E minor) 
Am 
Em 
Am 
C 
B 
Em 
C 
Em 
 (A minor)  (E minor)  (A minor)  (C major)  (B major)  (E minor)  (C major)  (E minor) 

Verse 3
D 
Em 
F# 
Em 
B 
C 
eyes  (D major)  (E minor)  (F sharp major)  (E minor)  (B major)  (C major) 
Em 
 (E minor) Impaled on nails of ice
Am 
And raked with emerald fire  (A minor) 
Em 
The wife with soul of snow  (E minor) 
Bm 
 (B minor) With steady hands be
Em 
 (E minor) gins to write
Em 
"I'm still, I need no life  (E minor) 