Key: Bb major
Verse 1
Em
G
D
Come, come with me out to the old churchyard,
G
Bm
G
C
Em
I so well know those paths beneath the soft green sward.
G
Em
G
D
G
Friends slumber in there that
Bm
G
We will trace out the names in
C
Em
the old churchyard.
Bm
G
C
And why weep for those
C
Em
Bm
For sweet is that sleep,
G
D
though cold and hard,
G
Bm
Em
Their pillows may be in
G
Em
G
the old churchyard.
Em
G
I know that it's vain when our friends depart
D
G
C
To greet kind words to a broken heart
Bm
G
Em
G
And I know that the
Em
G
Em
to the old churchyard
D
G
C
Oh, why would you weep,
C
G
I'm so weary, so I mourn,
G
Bm
C
The peace I seek in
G
Em
the old churchyard?
G
Em
G
Why weep for me,
G
D
To that haven of rest where
D
G
And I fear not to enter that dark, lonely tomb
D
G
Where our
Bm
G
D
Saviour has lain, there
C
Bm
He conquered the gloom.
G
Bm
G
I rest in the hope that
one bright day
And old
C
G
Gabriel's trumpet and the voice of the
D
Lord
C
Em
the old churchyard
G
Bm
G
I rest in the hope that
one bright day
C
G
Gabriel's trumpet an d the voice of the
D
Lord
G
C
We'll wake up the dead in the old churchyard.
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