Refferred to these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJDK-wp8C6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5gfYGRZ38
The song is mostly by preference. You can do your own variations of the chords, whatever works for
you. Here, I give some different ways to play certain chords. For most, you can just play open
chords or barre chords. Refer to both videos for different ways to play the song. One is the
original song,and the other is a cover.The cover also has a good method for strumming the song.
Chords
A B C D Dadd11 E Em Em7 G
e|-5---7--(3)---8----3---x---0---10----5-----0----0---7---7---(3)---0---3---3---|
B|-5---7---1----8----2---5---0---10----3-----2----0---8---8----3----0---3---3---|
G|-6---8---0----9----3---4---0---11----0-----1----0---9---7----0----0---0---4---|
D|-7---9---2----10---0---5---4---12----4-----2----2---9---9----2----0---0---5---|
A|-7---9---3----10---0---5---5---12----5-----2----2---7---7----2----2---2---5---|
E|-5---7---x----8----x---x---x---10----x-----0----0---x---x----0----0---3---3---|
Em
With a knock, knock and my eyes come open.
Em7
I light a match and orange fills the room.
D
The candle-light dancing off the walls.
D
and the movement's enough to wake her up.
Em
The men are outside with their torches.
Em7
I hear the hooves of the horses I must lead.
D
Would you fill up this flask with your moonshine
D
I'll need it to keep myself warm through this snowy storm.
Em
And hide your tears till my sights are out the door.
Em7
It's hard enough to leave for a war I don't believe.
D
Would you fill up this gun with melted soldiers,
D
it's the hand-made bullets that saved for the ring you wear.
Em
And I'll be wearing mine through the war cries.
Em7
I won't let them tear it from my hands.
D
The waiting is over. The waiting is over,
D
and I tell her as I go that
C
"I'm coming back."
Em7
But I may not be coming back.
G
Promise me you won't forget this,
D
but promise me you shall not dwell.
C
I'm coming back.
Em7
But I may not be coming back.
G
Take the letters off the dresser
D Em7
and fill the void with hearts and spades.
Em7
Oh, the outside air is cold.
D D Em7
You can see your breath for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles.
Em7 D D
Oh, heading north to war... To war.
Em7
Dreams take me back to the home I grew up in.
Em7 D
Take me back to that little house on the hill.
D
It was there we felt alive we didn't care about the territory or the long story.
Em7
Take me back, take me back to the day we met.
Em7 D
Playing cards with the girl right down the road.
D
Joking that the jack saw too much.
D
You be hearts and I'll be spades.
C
"I'm coming back."
Em7
But I may not be coming back.
G
Promise me you won't forget this,
D
but promise me you shall not dwell.
C
I'm coming back.
Em7
But I may not be coming back.
G
Take the letters off the dresser
D
and fill the void with hearts and spades.
Em B C B
Em
Dear love,
B C B
I write you with a heavy heart.
Em D
And with this pen I lie to you, lie to you.
B C
And with this pen I lie to you, lie to you
G
And with this pen I lie to you, lie to you.
A
These letters are a lie.
Em Em7 D
C D
Em
Past the snow, past the fields, past the hills,
D
we finally see the enemy we so greatly feared.
C
And in the image of 900 men lining the horizon,
D
this is where my letters end.
Em
Ride with me, ride with me!
D
Don't mistake their war cries for lullabies.
Em
Ride with me, die with me!
D
Their fortune means our fate.
Em
Hold the line, hold the line!
D
This will be the ground with which their bodies lie.
Em
Hold the line, force the fight!
D
We'll never be the same.
(Im not sure what they play during this bridge/solo section, so I just play the following chords)
Em Em7 D
C D
C
"I'm coming back."
Em7
But I may not be coming back.
G
Promise me you won't forget this,
D
but promise me you shall not dwell.
C
I'm coming back.
Em7
But I may not be coming back.
G
Take the letters off the dresser
D
and fill the void with hearts and spades.
End on Em or Em7
