Without capo for the album version, for live versions most of the times with capo II
C
There's a cross up yonder on Calvary Hill
G
There's a slip of blood on a silver knife
F C
There's a graveyard kid down below
G
Where at night the dead come to life
F C
Well above the stars they crackle and fire
G
A dead man's moon throws seven rings
F C
We’d put our ears to the cold grave stones
G
This is the song they’d sing
F C
We are alive
G
And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark
F C
Our spirits rise
F
To carry the fire and light the spark
C G
To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart
C F C C F G F C C G
C F C
A voice cried I was killed in Maryland in 1877
G
When the railroad workers made their stand
F C
I was killed in 1963
G
One Sunday morning in Birmingham
C F C
I died last year crossing the southern desert
G
My children left behind in San Pablo
F C
Well they’ve left our bodies here to rot
G
Oh please let them know
F C
We are alive
G
And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark
F C
Our spirits rise
F
To carry the fire and light the spark
C G
To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart
C F C C F G F C C G X2
F
Let your mind rest easy
G C
Sleep well my friend
F G
It’s only our bodies that betray us in the end
C F C
Well I awoke last night in the dark and dreamy deep
F G
From my head to my feet my body’d gone stone cold
F C
There were worms crawling all around me
G
My fingers scratchin’ at an earth black and six foot low
F C
Alone in the blackness of my grave
G
Alone I’d been left to die
F C
Then I heard voices calling all ‘round me
The earth rose above me
G
My eyes filled with sky
F C
We are alive
G
And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark
F C
Our spirits rise
F
To carry the fire and light the spark
C G F C
To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart
F C G F C F C
To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart
F C
We are alive
C F C C F G F C C G
