This is a pretty easy song, I suck at fingerpicking and
I figured it out easily. Here it is:
Standard Tuning (EADGBE)the picking is the same through
the whole song.
Chords:
Am Am5 Fmaj7 F G G(?) Am5 Am6 E
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Intro
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Am Am5?
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Fmaj7 F - if easier just barre the E & B
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AAm5
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FFaj7
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G G(?)
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AAm6
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AE5
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Intro: Am x8
Am
All you great men of power
Am5
you who boast of your feats
Fmaj7F
politicians and entrepreneurs
AmAm5
can you safeguard your breath in the night
while you sleep
Fmaj7F
keep your heart beating steady and sure
G
as you lie in your bed
G(000434)
does the thought haunt your head
Am5Am6
that your really rather small
Am5E
if there's one thing I know in this life
Am
we are beggars all
Am x8
AmAm5
All you champions of science and rulers of men
Fmaj7F
Can you summon the sun from it's sleep?
AmAm5
Does the earth seek your council on how fast to spin?
Fmaj7F
Can you shut up the gates of the deep?
G G(?)
Don't you know that all things hang as if by string
Am5Am6
over darkness, poised to fall?
Am5EAm
If there's one thing I know in this life, we are beggars all
Am x8
AmAm5
All you big shots who swagger and stride with conceit
Fmaj7F
Did you devise how your frame would be formed?
AmAm5
If you'd be raised in a palace or left out on the streets?
Fmaj7F
Or Choose the place or the hour you'd be born?
G G(?)
Tell me what can you claim not a thing, not your name
Am5Am6Am5E
Tell me if you can recall just one thing, not a gift, in this life
Am5E
Can you hear what's been said, can you see
Am
now that everything's grace
Am6
after all
Am5EAm
If there's one thing I know in this life, we are beggars all