The Grave - Don Mclean Chords
Chords: Dm, C, E7, Am, G, A5, Am6, F, Am7
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(Spoken)
The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colours
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone…
He's gone
[Intro]
Dm C E7
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B|------3-----------3--------------0h1--3-----3-------0-----------------3----
G|---------2-----------2--------0----------------0h2-----2-----------1-------
D|------------0--------------2------------------------------------0----------
A|------------------------3------------------------------------2-------------
E|----------------------------------------------------------0----------------
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[Verse 1]
Am G
When the wars of our nation did beckon
C Dm E7
A man barely twenty did answer the calling
Am G Dm E7 A5
Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation. He's gone
Dm Dm E7
But eternity knows him and it knows what we've done
[Verse 2]
Am Dm E7
And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers
Am Dm E7
Leaving brown muddy clay where the earth had been dry
Am Am6 Dm E7
And deep in the trench he waited for hours
C Dm E7
As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die
[Verse 3]
Dm Am
But the silence of night was shattered by fire
Dm Am
As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air
Dm Am
One after another his comrades were slaughtered
C Dm E7
In a morgue of marines, alone standing there
[Verse 4]
F F Am
He crouched ever lower, ever lower in fear
F F Am
They can't let me die, they can't let me die here
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