Gilded Rooms chords by Judy Collins

• Capo on 4th

🎸 Intro:

| Em     | Em     | Em     | Em     |




🎸 Verse 1:
   Em                     C
We sat in gilded rooms of fine old glass
    Em                                C
The light from candles dancing on the walls
    Em                                     C
She sang me the songs she'd written in her sorrow
    D                                Asus2
And told me she'd be dead and gone tomorrow
    Em                                   C
She learned to sing and paint in her own blood
      Em                                 C
As it dripped upon the strings of her guitar
    Em                                   C
She found a blade of steel in the silver flood
    D                                 A
And tore her friends and fingernails apart
    Em                                   C
She thought perhaps that she would marry soon
    Em                               C
The lover who would set her heart on fire
    Em                             C
The one she chose under the waning moon
    D                                      A
She ground them down as every flame burned higher

🎸 Chorus:
         G                       Cmaj7
And it's only time will tell and time alone
G                         Cmaj7
What is meant when all is set in stone
D                                    C
Who will ride one day on the shining horse
D                          A             A
Who will win and who will stay the course


🎸 Instrumental:
| Em    | Em     |


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


🎸 Chorus:
         G                       Cmaj7
And it's only time will tell and time alone
G                          Cmaj7
What is meant by all this skin and bone
D                                C
Who will ride off on the shining horse
D                          A             A
Who will win and who will stay the course


🎸 Instrumental:
| Em     | Em     |


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


🎸 Chorus:
         G                       Cmaj7
And it's only time will tell and time alone
G                          Cmaj7
What is meant by all this skin and bone
D                                C
Who will ride off on the shining horse
D                          A             A
Who will win and who will stay the course


🎸 Instrumental:
| Em     | Em     |


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


🎸 Chorus:
         G                       Cmaj7
And it's only time will tell and time alone
G                      Cmaj7
What is meant when all set in stone
D                                C
Who will ride off on the shining horse
D                          A             A
Who will win and who will stay the course


🎸 Outro:
| A      |