Gilded Rooms chords by Judy Collins

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

🎸 Intro:

| E minorEm   | E minorEm   | E minorEm   | E minorEm   |



🎸 Verse 1:
  E minorEm           C majorC
We sat in gilded rooms of fine old glass
  E minorEm                C majorC
The light from candles dancing on the walls
  E minorEm                   C majorC
She sang me the songs she'd written in her sorrow
  D MajorD                Asus2Asus2
And told me she'd be dead and gone tomorrow
  E minorEm                  C majorC
She learned to sing and paint in her own blood
   E minorEm                 C majorC
As it dripped upon the strings of her guitar
  E minorEm                  C majorC
She found a blade of steel in the silver flood
  D MajorD                 A augmentedA
And tore her friends and fingernails apart
  E minorEm                  C majorC
She thought perhaps that she would marry soon
  E minorEm                C majorC
The lover who would set her heart on fire
  E minorEm               C majorC
The one she chose under the waning moon
  D MajorD                   A augmentedA
She ground them down as every flame burned higher

🎸 Chorus:
     G+G            Cmaj7Cmaj7
And it's only time will tell and time alone
G+G             Cmaj7Cmaj7
What is meant when all is set in stone
D MajorD                  C majorC
Who will ride one day on the shining horse
D MajorD             A augmentedA       A augmentedA
Who will win and who will stay the course


🎸 Instrumental:
| E minorEm  | E minorEm   |


🎸 Verse 2:
  E minorEm            C majorC
He was the wrangler of some famous men
  E minorEm           C majorC
He was the star of every stage he crossed
  E minorEm                C majorC
He was the mountain he would have to move
  D MajorD              A augmentedA
For he was never found and never lost
   E minorEm               C majorC
They met when he was thirty years of age
 E minorEm             C majorC
Already at his peak and at a loss
E minorEm                C majorC
Joan of Arc had crossed his path so early
  D MajorD                A augmentedA
And he had borne the dagger and the cross

🎸 Chorus:
     G+G            Cmaj7Cmaj7
And it's only time will tell and time alone
G+G             Cmaj7Cmaj7
What is meant by all this skin and bone
D MajorD                C majorC
Who will ride off on the shining horse
D MajorD             A augmentedA       A augmentedA
Who will win and who will stay the course


🎸 Instrumental:
| E minorEm   | E minorEm   |


🎸 Verse 3:
  E minorEm               C majorC
He said
I'd really like to study love
E minorEm            C majorC
Taking both her hands between his own
  E minorEm                C majorC
He heard the singing of the mourning dove
  D MajorD              A augmentedA
And felt his soul was ready to atone
  E minorEm             C majorC
The girl with hair of gold and heart of steel
  E minorEm                C majorC
In time her past and future would begin
  E minorEm              C majorC
She wept in caves and watched the turning wheel
  D MajorD               A augmentedA
And lost as often as she failed to win


🎸 Chorus:
     G+G            Cmaj7Cmaj7
And it's only time will tell and time alone
G+G             Cmaj7Cmaj7
What is meant by all this skin and bone
D MajorD                C majorC
Who will ride off on the shining horse
D MajorD             A augmentedA       A augmentedA
Who will win and who will stay the course


🎸 Instrumental:
| E minorEm   | E minorEm   |


🎸 Verse 4:
  E minorEm             C majorC
The man who wrote the poems of ash and blood
E minorEm                 C majorC
All the saints were dancing to his rhymes
  E minorEm               C majorC
He had the gift of purest, truest love
  D MajorD                A augmentedA   A augmentedA
He had the cure for each and every crime


🎸 Chorus:
     G+G            Cmaj7Cmaj7
And it's only time will tell and time alone
G+G           Cmaj7Cmaj7
What is meant when all set in stone
D MajorD                C majorC
Who will ride off on the shining horse
D MajorD             A augmentedA       A augmentedA
Who will win and who will stay the course


🎸 Outro:
| A augmentedA   |