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Beggars - Thrice
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Tabbed by: Stanley
Tuning: Standard
Chords and patter Used:
Am F G E7 D7 Em
e|---0--------1-------3------4------2-----0----------------------------------|
B|---1--------1-------3------3------1-----0----------------------------------|
G|-----2--------2-------4------4------2--------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------2--------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Am F
All you great men of power, you who boast of your feats -
Am F
Politicians and entrepreneurs.
Am F
Can you safeguard your breath in the night while you sleep?
Am F
Keep your heart beating steady and sure?
G E7
As you lie in your bed, does the thought haunt your head
Am D7
That you?re really, rather small?
F Em
If there?s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.
Am F
All you champions of science and rulers of men,
Am F
Can you summon the sun from its sleep?
Am F
Does the earth seek your counsel on how fast to spin?
Am F
Can you shut up the gates of the deep?
G E7
Don?t you know that all things hang, as if by a string,
Am D7
O?er the darkness - poised to fall?
F Em
If there?s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.
Am F
All you big shots that swagger and stride with conceit,
Am F
Did you devise how your frame would be formed?
Am F
If you?d be raised in a palace, or live out in the streets,
Am F
Did you choose the place or the hour you?d be born?
G E7
Tell me what can you claim? Not a thing - not your name!
Am D7 F
Tell me if you can recall just one thing,
Em
That?s not a gift in this life?
Am F
Can you hear what?s been said?
Am Em Am D7
Can you see now that everything?s grace after all?
F Em
If there?s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.
