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