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transcription from jonimitchell.com Slouching Towards BethlehemGuitar chords transcribed by Marian Russell Tuning: DADF#AD "Joni" Tuning: D75435 |
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Note: 1h0 = first fret hammer off
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Intro:
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1st verse:
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Turning and turning
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Within the widening gyre
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The falcon cannot hear the falcon er
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Things fall apart
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The center cannot hold
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And a blood dimmed tide
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Is loosed upon the world
2nd verse: same chords as above
Nothing is sacred
The ceremony sinks
Innocence is drowned
In anarchy
The best lack conviction
Given some time to think
And the worst are full of passion
Without mercy
Chorus:
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Surely some revelation is at hand
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Surely it's the second coming
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And wrath has finally taken form
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For what is this rough beast
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Its hour come at last
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Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born
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Slouching towards Bethlehem
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to be born
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3rd verse:
Hoping and hoping
As if by my weak faith
The spirit of this world
Would heal and rise
Vast are the shadows
That straddle and strafe
And struggle in the darkness
Troubling my eyes
4th verse:
Shaped like a lion
It has the head of a man
With a gaze as blank
And pitiless as the sun
And it's moving its slow thighs
Across the desert sands
Through dark indignant
Reeling falcons
Chorus:
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it's the second coming
And wrath has finally taken form
For what is this rough beast
Its hour come at last
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born
5th verse:
Raging and raging
It rises from the deep
Opening its eyes
After twenty centuries
Vexed to a nightmare
Out of a stony sleep
By a rocking cradle
By the Sea of Galilee
Chorus:
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it's the second coming
And wrath has finally taken form
For what is this rough beast
Its hour come at last
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born
© 1991 Crazy Crow Music BMI
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