Singing The Spirit Home chords by Eric Bogle

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: D MajorD

🎸 Intro:

C majorC |C/BC/B |A minorAm Asus2Asus2 |A minorAm : x2

🎸 Verse 1:
   C majorC      C/BC/B  A minorAm     FF      C majorC
They came for him in the morning, an hour before dawning
  C majorC     C/BC/B   A minorAm      FF    G+G
The pale white moon was waning in the African sky
  C majorC     C/BC/B    A minorAm     FF       C majorC
The cell door flew wide open, they stood looking at him
  C majorC   C/BC/B      A minorAm     FF  G+G    C majorC
He saw no mercy in their hearts, no pity in their eyes

A minorAm Asus2Asus2 |A minorAm :

🎸 Verse 2:
    C majorC    C/BC/B   A minorAm         FF         C majorC
As they took him and they bound him, tied his trembling hands behind him
  C majorC    C/BC/B   A minorAm       FF      G+G
He felt his courage leave him, his manhood disappear
  C majorC     C/BC/B  A minorAm      FF         C majorC
His legs would not support him, so from the cell they dragged him
  C majorC     C/BC/B     A minorAm         FF   G+G    C majorC
He sobbed and screamed and cursed them in his loneliness and fear

A minorAm Asus2Asus2 |A minorAm :

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC    G+G    C majorC
Chains, chains, chains
  FF        G+G         C majorC
How many souls have died in freedom's name
  FF      G+G        C majorC   C/BC/B  A minorAm
To some it is a way of life, to others just a word
  FF      G+G          C majorC   C/BC/B   A minorAm
To some it is a snow-white dove, to some a bloody sword
   FF    G+G      A minorAm  FF         G+G      C majorC
But until the last chains fall, freedom will make slaves of us all

A minorAm Asus2Asus2 |A minorAm |C majorC |G+G :

🎸 Verse 3:
   C majorC   C/BC/B    A minorAm     FF           C majorC
With faces closed and hidden the white guards walked beside him
 C majorC     C/BC/B  A minorAm           FF        G+G
Indifferent to his pleading - they'd been down this path before
  C majorC   C/BC/B    A minorAm    FF        C majorC
But other eyes were watching, other ears were listening
C majorC   C/BC/B     A minorAm       FF   G+G     C majorC
Other hearts beat with him in his final desperate hour

A minorAm Asus2Asus2 |A minorAm :

🎸 Verse 4:
     C majorC    C/BC/B   A minorAm       FF           C majorC
From the darkness of that prison came the sound of his brothers singing
 C majorC       C/BC/B  A minorAm      FF      G+G
Courage, their voices told him, you do not walk alone
      C majorC    C/BC/B   A minorAm    FF         C majorC
From their cells beyond the shadow he heard their voices echo
   C majorC    C/BC/B    A minorAm     FF    G+G   C majorC
As in love and pride and sorrow they sang his spirit home

A minorAm Asus2Asus2 |A minorAm :

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC    G+G    C majorC
Chains, chains, chains
  FF        G+G         C majorC
How many souls have died in freedom's name
  FF      G+G        C majorC   C/BC/B  A minorAm
To some it is a way of life, to others just a word
  FF      G+G          C majorC   C/BC/B  A minorAm
To some it is a snow-white dove, to some a bloody sword
   FF    G+G      A minorAm  FF         G+G      C majorC
But until the last chains fall, freedom will make slaves of us all

A minorAm Asus2Asus2 |A minorAm |C majorC |G+G :

🎸 Verse 5:
     C majorC    C/BC/B   A minorAm     FF        C majorC
And their song of hope and freedom, it rang inside that prison
  C majorC   C/BC/B    A minorAm      FF          G+G
It beat against the iron bars and crashed against the stone
      C majorC    C/BC/B    A minorAm         FF           C majorC
As in their fear and hate they hung him, the last sound that filled his being
    C majorC    C/BC/B   A minorAm    FF    G+G     C majorC
Was his brothers singing, singing, singing his spirit home

🎸 Outro:
  C majorC           G+G      C majorC
And courage, brother, you do not walk alone.
  C majorC             G+G        C majorC
And we shall walk with you and sing your spirit home
  C majorC           G+G      C majorC
And courage, brother, you do not walk alone.
(shosholoza, shosholoza, kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe)
  C majorC             G+G        C majorC
And we shall walk with you and sing you spirit home
(shosholoza, shosholoza, kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe)
  C majorC          G+G      C majorC
And courage, sister, you do not walk alone.
(shosholoza, shosholoza, kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe)
  C majorC             G+G        C majorC
And we shall walk with you and sing your spirit home.
(shosholoza, shosholoza, kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe)
C majorC
Shosholoza, shosholoza
FF      G+G         C majorC
kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe.
C majorC
Shosholoza, shosholoza
FF      G+G         C majorC
kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe