La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
Am
Em
E7
Em
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
Am
Em
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Am
Em
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Am
Em
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
B7
Em
Dance me to the end of love
B7
Em
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
D
Em
D
Em
Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love
D
Em
D
Em
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Coming Back To You
F
Dm
Bb
Csus4
F
F
Dm
Maybe I'm still hurting
Bb
C
F
I can't turn the other cheek
F
Dm
But you know that I still love you
C
Bb
F
It's just that I can't speak
Bb
F
I looked for you in everyone
A
Bb
C
And they called me on that too
F
C/e
Dm
Am/c
I lived alone but I was only
Bb
Csus4
F
Coming back to you
Ah they're shutting down the factory now
Just when all the bills are due
And the fields they're under lock and key
Though the rain and the sun come through
And springtime starts but then it stops
In the name of something new
And all the senses rise against this
Coming back to you
Bb
F
And they're handing down my sentence now
Bb
Csus4
F
And I know what I must do
A
Bb
Another mile of silence while I'm
G
C
Coming back to you
There are many in your life
And many still to be
Since you are a shining light
There's many that you'll see
But I have to deal with envy
When you choose the precious few
Who've left their pride on the other side of
Coming back to you
Even in your arms I know
I'll never get it right
Even when you bend to give me
Comfort in the night
I've got to have your word on this
Or none of it is true
And all I've said was just instead of
Coming back to you
The Law
Dm
A7
Dm
Am7
Dm
How many times did you call me
Am
Em7
Am
And I knew it was late
Dm
Am7
Dm
I left everybody
Am
Em7
Am
But I never went straight
F
C7
F
I don't claim to be guilty
Dm
Am7
Dm
But I do understand
Bb
A
Dm
There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand
Bb
A
Dm
A7
There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand
Now my heart's like a blister
From doing what I do
If the moon has a sister
It's got to be you
I'm going to miss you forever
Though it's not what I planned
There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand
There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand
Now the deal has been dirty
Since dirty began
I'm not asking for mercy
Not from the man
You just don't ask for mercy
While you're still on the stand
There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand
There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand
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Am
Em7
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Am
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Dm
Am7
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Dm
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Em7
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Am
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F
C7
F
I don't claim to be guilty
Dm
Am7
Dm
Guilty's too grand
Bb
A
Dm
There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand
Bb
A
Dm
A7
There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand
That's all I can say, baby
That's all I can say
It wasn't for nothing
That they put me away
I fell with my angel
Down the chain of command
There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand
There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand
There's a Law, there's an Arm, there's a Hand
Night Comes On
Dsus4 xx0233
Dsus2 xx0230
C/g 332010 or 3x2013
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus2
x2
D
Dsus4
I went down to the place
D
Dsus2
Where I knew she lay waiting
D
Dsus4
A
Under the marble and the snow
D
Dsus4
I said, Mother, I'm frightened
D
Dsus2
The thunder and the lightning
D
Dsus4
A
I'll never come through this alone
G
C/g
She said, I'll be with you
G
C/g
My shawl wrapped around you
G
C/g
G
My hand on your head when you go
D
And the night came on
Am
It was very calm
F
C
I wanted that night to go on and on
G
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
But she said, Go back, go back to the World
We were fighting in Egypt
When they signed this agreement
That nobody else had to die
There was this terrible sound
And my father went down
With a terrible wound in his side
He said, Try to go on
Take my books, take my gun
And remember, my son, how they lied
And the night comes on
And it's very calm
I'd like to pretend that my father was wrong
But you don't want to lie, not to the young
We were locked in this kitchen
I took to religion
And I wondered how long she would stay
I needed so much
To have nothing to touch
I've always been greedy that way
But my son and my daughter
Climbed out of the water
Crying, Papa, you promised to play
And they lead me away
To the great surprise
It's Papa don't peek, Papa, cover your eyes
And they hide, they hide in the world
Now I look for her always
I'm lost in this calling
I'm tied to the threads of some prayer
Saying, When will she summon me
When will she come to me
What must I do to prepare
When she bends to my longing
Like a willow, like a fountain
She stands in the luminous air
And the night comes on
And it's very calm
I lie in her arms and she says, When I'm gone
I'll be yours, yours for a song
Now the crickets are singing
The vesper bells ringing
The cat's curled asleep in his chair
I'll go down to Bill's Bar
I can make it that far
And I'll see if my friends are still there
Yes, and here's to the few
Who forgive what you do
And the fewer who don't even care
And the night comes on
It's very calm
I want to cross over, I want to go home
But she says, Go back, go back to the World
Hallelujah
C
G
C
Am
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
C
Am
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
F
G
C
G
But you don't really care for music, do ya?
C
F
G
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
Am
F
The minor fall, the major lift
G
E7
Am
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
F
Am
F
C
G
C
G
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
You say I took the Name in vain
I don't even know the Name
But if I did, well really, what's it to ya?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool ya
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Additional verses:
Baby, I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew ya
I've seen your flag on the Marble Arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do ya?
And remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Maybe there's a God above
But all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew ya
It's not a cry you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
The Captain
C
G
F
C
C
G
Now the Captain called me to his bed
F
C
He fumbled for my hand
F
C
"Take these silver bars," he said
G
C
"I'm giving you command"
C
C7
"Command of what, there's no one here
F
C
There's only you and me
G
All the rest are dead or in retreat
F
C
Or with the enemy"
"Complain, complain, that's all you've done
Ever since we lost
If it's not the Crucifixion
Then it's the Holocaust"
"May Christ have mercy on your soul
For making such a joke
Amid these hearts that burn like coal
And the flesh that rose like smoke"
"I know that you have suffered, lad
But suffer this awhile
Whatever makes a soldier sad
Will make a killer smile"
"I'm leaving, Captain, I've got to go
There's blood upon your hand
But tell me, Captain, if you know
Of a decent place to stand"
"There is no decent place to stand
In a massacre
But if a woman take your hand
Then go and stand with her"
"I left a wife in Tennessee
And a baby in Saigon
I risked my life but not to hear
Some country-western song"
"Ah, but if you cannot raise your love
To a very high degree
Then you're just the man I've been thinking of
So come and stand with me"
"Your standing days are done," I cried
"You'll rally me no more
I don't even know what side
We fought on, or what for"
"I'm on the side that's always lost
Against the side of Heaven
I'm on the side of Snake-eyes tossed
Against the side of Seven
And I've read the Bill of Human Rights
And some of it was true
But there wasn't any burden left
So I'm laying it on you"
C
G
Now the Captain he was dying
F
C
But the Captain wasn't hurt
F
C
The silver bars were in my hand
G
C
I pinned them to my shirt
Hunter's Lullaby
G
C
G
C
F
C
Your father's gone a-hunting
C
F
C
He's deep in the forest so wild
G
G7
And he cannot take his wife with him
F
C
He cannot take his child
Your father's gone a-hunting
Through the quicksand and the clay
And a woman cannot follow him
Although she knows the way
G
Am
Your father's gone a-hunting
F
G
Through the silver and the glass
C
E7/b
Am
/g
Where only greed can enter
F
C
G
But spirit, spirit cannot pass
Your father's gone a-hunting
For the beast he'll never bind
And he leaves a baby sleeping
And his blessings all behind
Your father's gone a-hunting
And he's lost his lucky charm
And he's lost the guardian heart
That keeps the hunter from the harm
Your father's gone a-hunting
He asked me to say goodbye
And he warned me not to stop him
I wouldn't, I wouldn't even try
Heart With No Companion
G
C
G
G
C
G
Now I greet you from the other side
G
D
G
Of sorrow and despair
G
C
G
With a love so vast and shattered
G
D
G
It will reach you everywhere
And I sing this for the captain
Whose ship has not been built
For the mother in confusion
Her cradle still unfilled
For the heart with no companion
For the soul without a king
For the prima ballerina
Who cannot dance to anything
Through the days of shame that are coming
Through the nights of wild distress
Though your promise count for nothing
You must keep it nonetheless
You must keep it for the captain
Whose ship has not been built
For the mother in confusion
Her cradle still unfilled
For the heart with no companion
For the soul without a king
For the prima ballerina
Who cannot dance to anything
And I greet you from the other side
Of sorrow and despair
With a love so vast and shattered
It will reach you everywhere
If It Be Your Will
Capo:
IV
G
G
C
Dm
If it be your will
Bb
Am
That I speak no more
C
Dm
And my voice be still
F
C
As it was before
Am
G
I will speak no more
Am
G
I shall abide until
F
C
I am spoken for
G
If it be your will
If it be your will
That a voice be true
From this broken hill
I will sing to you
From this broken hill
All your praises they shall ring
If it be your will
To let me sing
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Am
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C
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Dm
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F
C
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Am
G
From this broken hill
Am
G
All your praises they shall ring
F
C
If it be your will
G
To let me sing
If it be your will
If there is a choice
Let the rivers fill
Let the hills rejoice
Let your mercy spill
On all these burning hearts in hell
If it be your will
To make us well
And draw us near
And bind us tight
All your children here
In their rags of light
In our rags of light
All dressed to kill
And end this night
If it be your will
