• Song:

    They Dance Alone

  • Artist:

    Sting

  • Album:

    Best Ballads

Tom :A5

Intro : A5  D5  A5  D5 A5 D5 A5  E5

A5                  A5
   Why are these women here,
F#5
   dancing on their own?
B5                                      E5     E5
   Why is there a sadness in their eyes?
A5             A5
   Why are there soldiers here, 
F#5
   their faces fixed like stone?
B5                                       E5     E5
   Can't see what it is that they despise.
D5                       A5
   Dancing with the missing,
D5                     A5
   dancing with the dead.
D5                    A5
   Dancing with the invisible ones,
D5                  A5  
   their anguish is unsaid.
G5                     D5     
   Dancing with their fathers,
G5                     D5
   dancing with their sons,
E5                     Faug47M
   dancing with their husbands.
E5              Faug47M
   They dance alone.
             E5
   They dance alone.
A5       D5       A5       D5       A5       D5       A5       E5

A5                        A5                   F#5
   's the only form of protest they're alowed
B5                                E5           E5
   Seen their silent faces, they scream so loud.
A5                  A5
   If they were to speak these words,
F#5
   they'd go missing too.
B5                                     
   Another woman on the torture table:
E5                    E5
   what else can they do?
D5                       A5
   Dancing with the missing,
D5                    A5
   dancing with the dead.
D5                  A5
   Dancing with the invisible ones,
D5                  A5
   their anguish is unsaid.
G5                      D5 
   Dancing with their fathers,
G5                          D5
   dancing with their sons.
E5                             Faug47M
   Dancing with their husbands.
E5                  Faug47M
   They dance alone.
         E5
   They dance alone.


A5                D5
   One day we'll dance on their graves.
B5               F#5
   One day we'll sing our freedom.
A5                D5
   One day we'll laugh in our joy:
B5         E5
   when we'll dance.
A5                D5
   One day we'll dance on their graves.
B5               F#5
   One day we'll sing our freedom.
A5                D5
   One day we'll laugh in our joy:
B5         E5        A5  (continues through foriegn (Spanish?) bit)
   when we'll dance.

Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos

Ellas danzan con los muertos

Ellas danzan con amores invisibles

Ellas danzan con silenciosa angistia

Danzan con sus padres

Danzan con sus hijos

Danzan con sus esposos

Ellas danzan solas

Danzan solas
 

A5                 A5
   Hey Mr. Pinochet,
F#5
   you've sown a bitter crop.
B5
   It's foreign money that supports you,
E5                                E5
   One day the money's going to stop
A5                     A5
   No wages for your torturers,
F#5
   no budget for your guns.
B5
   You think of your own mother, 
   E5                      E5
   dancing with her invisible son.
D5                       A5
   Dancing with the missing,
D5                    A5
   dancing with the dead.
D5                  A5
   Dancing with the invisible ones,
D5                  A5
   their anguish is unsaid.
G5                      D5
   Dancing with their fathers,
G5                         D5
   dancing with their sons.
E5                             Faug47M
   Dancing with their husbands.
E5              Faug47M
   They dance alone.
               E5
   They dance alone.
A5                D5
   One day we'll dance on their graves.
B5               F#5
   One day we'll sing our freedom.
A5                D5
   One day we'll laugh in our joy.
B5         E5
   when we'll dance.
A5                D5
   One day we'll dance on their graves.
B5                F#5
   One day we'll sing our freedom.
A5                D5
   One day we'll laugh in our joy.
B5         E5
   when we'll dance.

Then we'll dance.
We'll dance.....
[Repeated many times, fading, accompanied by 
similar chords to those used in the last section]
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