Key: E major
Verse 1
A
Em
A
Em
F#m
D
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,
A
G
A
Em
ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,
G
Em
He has me hanging like a crucifix
G
A
There's an alcohol in to me hand
He draws a fish in the sand
F#m
A
Em
and sands the air with his politics
G
A
To make a profit from a slave
he'd roll the stone, part the weaves
F#m
A
Em
and ignite the human forest
But to tell the truth
F#m
G
C
there is not enough holes
C
A
To lie where aeroplanes lay
D
A
G
Gm
Oh, well it looks like
A
Bm
F#m
The day broke upon us
F#m
Bm
F#m
Yes, he made sharp the darkness
A
Em
to carve up the light
A
Em
for the rain to arrive
D
A
F#m
Bm
So will you sing me that old school
G
Gm
and shows me to the door
D
F#m
Lower me down from your window
Bm
Em
With flowers from the reeling
G
Gm
D
And prayers from the wheel and moor
A
Em
F#m
A
G
A
Em
G
Em
Shot the officer at dawn
G
A
When they drew upon his sinning,
F#m
Bm
he was singing the prisoner's song
G
Gm
D
F#
Em
the melody wears no uniform
F#m
Bm
Em
Like it takes the iron railings to warm
A
C
there's many in Jerus alem
A
C
And we know his work was done,
D
A
G
Gm
But nobody really knows why
Em
Bm
F#m
The day broke upon us
F#m
Bm
F#m
Yes, he made sharp the darkness
A
Em
to carve up the light
C
G
He pulls up his sacrifice
Gm
D
And says, so will you sing
G
F#m
Bm
me that old school?
G
Gm
A
To nail me to the door
D
G
F#m
Leaves me hung till I'm swinging low
Bm
Em
Old songs did I sing him,
G
Gm
G
all the verses that I know,
D
F#m
Bm
yes, I sang in the old school
G
Gm
the offering he poured
D
F#m
I lowered him down from that window
Bm
Em
With flowers for the lean
G
Gm
D
and prayers from the wheel and
A
Em
D
A
G
A
board
Em
G
Gm
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