The Shadow chords by Mary Black

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
Am

Verse:
               Dm
It's over now, the guns have flowed
       G   G7      C   F
The nightmare flashed on a cradle road
       G     E7
As the guilty rain came down
Am                Dm
No child to hold through anxious fears
     G  G7      C   F
No gentle hand to catch the tears
    G        E7
That soak this ancient ground

Verse:
  Am               Dm
The smile that breaks so gently, belies a troubled head
     G          G7      C
Like the voice that holds the secrets of a life you might have led
G        E7      Am      F
Eyes with pale indifference in danger and in grace
    Dm          G          C
But the glance that knows the death-knell left its shadow on your face
    Am             Dm
In the deep, enduring darkness as your loyal friends go down
    G                F    E   F
Touched by the violent crown 'til their hunter's hunted down

Instrumental:
Am   Dm  G  C F G E7

Verse:
  Am            Dm
The web is slowly woven, the endless dreamer shed
    G          G7      C
In the dawn, the curfew is broken on the Sunday morning's dead
G      E7        Am      F
Centuries of thunder take the castle in the flood
    Dm        G         C
To the cold night air of London, where your hands are bound in blood
Am            Dm
Midwinter deepened as the parting turned inside
 G                 F   E   F
A thousand times you cried, but the shadow never died

Verse:
   Am           Dm
It's over now, the guns have flowed
       G   G7      C   F
The nightmare flashed on a cradle road
       G     E7
As the guilty rain came down
Am                Dm
No child to hold through anxious fears
     G  G7      C   F
No gentle hand, no graceful years
    G      E7
Just bitter ancient ground
   Am
It's over now