A5
    There's a grief that can't be spoken.
                           C5
There's a pain goes on and on.
                      D5
Empty chairs at empty tables
         E5                  A5
Now my friends are dead and gone.

A5
    Here they talked of revolution.
                          C5
Here it was they lit the flame.
                        D5
Here they sang about `tomorrow'
       E5            A5
And tomorrow never came.

          C5    C5      F5
From the table in the corner
           C5     F5     Bb5
They could see a world reborn
          Ab5        Ab5    Eb5
And they rose with voices ringing
       Bb5        A5
I can hear them now!
          D5         D5      Bb5
The very words that they had sung
   G5        G5       F5
Became their last communion
C5                     C5      A5
    On the lonely barricade at dawn.

A5                                            
    Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
                         C5
That I live and you are gone.
                               D5
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
           E5               C#5
There's a pain goes on and on.

C#5 
    Phantom faces at the window.
                        E5
Phantom shadows on the floor.
                       F#5
Empty chairs at empty tables
           Ab5                  C#5
Where my friends will meet no more.

C#5
    Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
                         E5
What your sacrifice was for
                      F#5
Empty chairs at empty tables
           Ab5                 C#5       C#5       C#5       C#5
Where my friends will sing no more.