• Song:

    Cemetery Gates

  • Artist:

    The Smiths

  • Album:

    Ask

Tabbed by busrday

Intro:
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C5   D5   G5

G5
A dreaded sunny day
                                C5
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
            D5           E5       D5   C5
Keats and Yeats are on your side
G5
A dreaded sunny day
                                C5
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
            D5           E5       D5   C5
Keats and Yeats are on your side
        D5          G5
While Wilde is on mine

G5                                         C5
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
                             D5
All those people all those lives
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Where are they now?
       G5
With loves, with hates
                        C5
And passions just like mine

They were born
                D5
And then they lived
             E5 D5 C5
And then they died

Which seems so unfair
D5              G5
And I want to cry

               B5
You say: "ere thrice the sun hath door
                   G5
Salutation to the dawn"
         B5                        G5
And you claim these words as your own
     C5                   D5
But I'm well read, have heard them said
           E5                       C5
A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)

        G5
If you must write prose and poems
                                  C5
The words you use should be your own
                     D5      E5 D5 C5
Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
                  G5
There's always someone, somwhere
                       C5
With a big nose, who knows
                           D5
And who trips you up and laughs
        E5 D5 C5
When you fall
                         D5
Who'll trip you up and laugh
          G5
When you fall

               B5                G5
You say: "ere long done do does did"
 B5                             G5
Words which could only be your own
     C5
You then produce the text
       D5
From whence was ripped
             E5     C5
(some dizzy whore, 1804)

            G5
A dreaded sunny day

So let's go where we're happy
                                C5
And I meet you at the cemetery gates
            D5           E5       D5   C5
Keats and Yeats are on your side
            G5
A dreaded sunny day

So let's go where we're wanted
                                 C5
And I meet you at the cemetery gates
            D5           E5       D5   C5
Keats and Yeats are on your side - but you lose
        D5          G5
While Wilde is on mine

(Then it ends the same as intro)
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