Darkest Hour chords by Iron Maiden

Chords with lyrics

Key: E minorEm

🤘 Intro:
| E minorEm | E minorEm | E minorEm | E minorEm |
| E minorEm  Bsus4Bsus4 | Bsus4Bsus4  E minorEm | C majorC  A minorAm | Bsus4Bsus4 |
| E minorEm  Bsus4Bsus4 | Bsus4Bsus4  E minorEm | C majorC  A minorAm | Bsus4Bsus4 | Bsus4Bsus4 |


🤘 Verse 1:
E minorEm
 We buried our sons
  Cmaj7Cmaj7
We turned and fled
E minorEm
 No growing old
   Cmaj7Cmaj7
The glorious dead
E minorEm
 But we came back
    Cmaj7Cmaj7
Because one man said
E minorEm
 Now on the beaches
   Cmaj7Cmaj7
The blood runs red

🤘 Verse 2:
E minorEm
 I faced them down
  Cmaj7Cmaj7
The only one
E minorEm
 I stood alone
   Cmaj7Cmaj7
And warned the day would come
E minorEm
 But they were wrong
  Cmaj7Cmaj7
Appeases every one
E minorEm
 And not for the last time
 Cmaj7Cmaj7
We all stand alone


🤘 Pre-Chorus 1:
Csus2Csus2          E minorEm
 I watch the sun move away
     Dsus2Dsus2
As I embrace the night
     Csus2Csus2
And my black dog has it's day
                D5D5 E minorEm
For six long yеars, you shall not pass
      Dsus2Dsus2
Barbarians at the gates
    Csus2Csus2  D5D5
We will ovеrcome

🤘 Chorus:
E minorEm    C majorC
 Here I stand
   G+G      B minorBm
In a serenade of glory
E minorEm        C majorC    G+G   B minorBm
 Naked by the throne of kings
E minorEm       D MajorD
 You sowed the wind
   A/C#A/C#          C majorC
And now you reaped the whirlwind
E minorEm      D MajorD        Csus2Csus2  D5D5 Csus2Csus2
 Before the dawn the darkest hour
    D5D5  E minorEm
The darkest hour


🤘 Verse 3:
E minorEm             Cmaj7Cmaj7
 To blaze in glory like a dying sun
E minorEm
One last burning giant
   Cmaj7Cmaj7
Tell Jupiter moves on
A minorAm              E minorEm
 Turn the ploughshares into swords
      G+G    D MajorD
You sons of Albion awake
       Csus2Csus2   D5D5
Defend this sacred land


🤘 Chorus:
E minorEm    C majorC
 Here I stand
   G+G      B minorBm
In a serenade of glory
E minorEm        C majorC    G+G   B minorBm
 Naked by the throne of kings
E minorEm       D MajorD
 You sowed the wind
   A/C#A/C#          C majorC
And now you reaped the whirlwind
E minorEm      D MajorD        Csus2Csus2  D5D5 Csus2Csus2
 Before the dawn the darkest hour
    D5D5  E minorEm
The darkest hour


Guitar Solos:
| E minorEm | E minorEm |

| E minorEm | Csus2Csus2 | E minorEm | Csus2Csus2  A minorAm | 4x

| A minorAm | E minorEm | G+G | D MajorD | A minorAm | E minorEm | G+G  D MajorD | Csus2Csus2 | Csus2Csus2 |


🤘 Chorus:
E minorEm    C majorC
 Here I stand
   G+G      B minorBm
In a serenade of glory
E minorEm        C majorC    G+G   B minorBm
 Naked by the throne of kings
E minorEm       D MajorD
 You sowed the wind
   A/C#A/C#          C majorC
And now you reaped the whirlwind
E minorEm      D MajorD        C majorC
 Before the dawn the darkest hour
E minorEm    C majorC
 Here I stand
   G+G      B minorBm
In a serenade of glory
E minorEm        C majorC    G+G   B minorBm
 Naked by the throne of kings
E minorEm       D MajorD
 You sowed the wind
   A/C#A/C#          C majorC
And now you reaped the whirlwind
E minorEm      D MajorD        Csus2Csus2  D5D5 Csus2Csus2  D5D5
 Before the dawn the darkest hour
Csus2Csus2          D5D5  E minorEm
 Before the dawn the darkest hour


🤘 Outro:
| E minorEm | E minorEm | E minorEm | E minorEm |