This is how I play my simplified acoustic version of this song.
I play the G as 320033
and Cadd9 as x32033
Intro - D
D A
In the east the wind is blowing
G D
The boats across the sea
A
And their sails will fill the morning
G D
And their cries ring out to me
D Cadd9 D D Cadd9 D A
Oh oh oh........oh the more it changes
G D
The more it stays the same
A
And the hand just re-arranges
G D
The players in the game
Bridge
D Cadd9 D D D Bm G
Oh oh oh oh oh oh I had a dream
D
It seems I stood alone
D D Bm G
And the ve e eil of all the years
A D
Goes sinking from my eyes like a stone
D G A D x 6
Verse 1
G A D
A king shall fall and put to death by the English parliament shall be
G A D
Fire and plagues to London come in the year of six and twenties three
G A D
An emperor of France shall rise who will be born near Italy
G A D D Cadd9 D Cadd9
His rule shall cost his empire dear Napoleron his name shall be
Verse 2
D G A D
From Castile does Franco come and the government driven out shall be
G A D
An English king seeks divorce and from his throne cast out is he
G A D
One named Hister shall become a captain of Greater Germanie
G A D D Cadd9 D Cadd9
No law does this man observe and bloody his rise and fall shall be
Chorus
D G A D
Man man your time is sand your ways are leaves upon the sea
G A D
I am the eyes of Nostradamus all your ways are known to me
D G A D
Man man your time is sand your ways are leaves upon the sea
G A D Cadd9 D Cadd9 D
I am the eyes of Nostradamus all your ways are known to me
D G A D x 6
Verse 3
D G A D
In the new land of America three brothers now shall come to power
G A D
Two alone are born to rule but all must die before their hour
G A D
Two great men but brothers not make the north united stand
G A D D Cadd9 D Cadd9
It's power be seen to grow and fear possess the eastern lands
Verse 4
D G A D
Three leagues from the gates of Rome a Pope named Pol is doomed to die
G A D
A great wall that divides a city at this time is cast aside
G A
These are the signs I bring to you to show you when the time is nigh
Chorus
D G A D
Man man your time is sand your ways are leaves upon the sea
G A D
I am the eyes of Nostradamus all your ways are known to me
D G A D
Man man your time is sand your ways are leaves upon the sea
G A D A Bb G D Cadd9 D
I am the eyes of Nostradamus....all your ways are known..to me
