Last Lonely And Wretched chords by Joan Baez

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Standard tuning

B7B7 played X02420

Verse 1:
B7B7
You're tired and you're poor,
  C majorC     B7B7
You long to be free,
      B7B7
But in this Godforsaken land
      C majorC     B7B7
You find no home, no family

Chorus:
    C majorC           G+G
On the many roads that you've wandered
     B7B7     E minorEm
Since the day of your birth.
    E minorEm        B7B7
You've become one of the last,
      E minorEm    E minorEm
Lonely and wretched.

Verse 2:
   B7B7
Your hair is matted,
   C majorC         B7B7
Your face and hands are dirty,
    Bsus2Bsus2
And the years that you've toiled
   C majorC           B7B7
Must number somewhere near thirty.

Chorus:
  C majorC       G+G
The deepening of a sadness
   B7B7      E minorEm
Broke finally into madness.
    E minorEm        B7B7
You are truly one of the last,
      E minorEm    E minorEm
Lonely and wretched.

Verse 3:
   Bsus2Bsus2
Your eyes are wild and frightening
    C majorC         B7B7
At the same time they are blessed
   B7B7
And I wonder if God died,
      C majorC        B7B7
Turned his back or only just rested.

Chorus:

    C majorC         G+G
And you walked out on the seventh day
      B7B7      E minorEm
Through the big gates and on your way
  E minorEm        B7B7
To become one of the last,
      E minorEm    E minorEm
Lonely and wretched.

Refrain:
  G+G        C majorC
For once you were a child.
         G+G
Your cheeks were red,
       D MajorD
You were well fed.
        E minorEm
You laughed and played
       D MajorD
Till you got teary,
      C majorC
Ran to your mother
       B7B7   B7B7
When you were weary.

Verse 4:
  Bsus2Bsus2
But somewhere you were forsaken
 C majorC          B7B7
Alone I'll not bear the blame
  Bsus2Bsus2
And somehow all was taken,
   C majorC           B7B7
Your mind, your body, your name.

Chorus:
  C majorC      G+G
Forgive us our unkindness,
   B7B7       E minorEm
Our desertion and our blindness,
   E minorEm      B7B7
With you, all the last,
      E minorEm    E minorEm
Lonely and wretched.

Outro:
  E minorEm        B7B7
Forgive us, all the last,
      E minorEm
Lonely and wretched.