Down On Our Own Shield chords by Jakob Dylan

Chords with lyrics

Album: Country + Women (2010)
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Intro: FF      DmDm    (x2)

            FF
It's a struggle, it's a shame
          DmDm
It's all give and no take
       C majorC             Bb5Bb5
Whatever, it is now, it's right up to our waist
          FF            DmDm
It's a pity, it's a shame to see it all slip away
         C majorC             Bb5Bb5
I've seen you worried babe, but never this way
      FF        C majorC
We hold our ground, we don't kneel
   DmDm Dm(maj7) Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
If we go      down we go
Bb5Bb5       FF
Down on our own shield
        FF
It's a river of tears
          DmDm
And we're in over our ears
        C majorC         Bb5Bb5
In the dark it rides off with our better years
        FF
It's a bottomless well
      DmDm
It's a little overkill
         C majorC
It's the end of a dragon's tail
        Bb5Bb5
That's whipping round our heels
      FF        C majorC
But we don't bow, we make no deals
   DmDm Dm(maj7) Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
If we go      down we go
Bb5Bb5       FF
Down on our own shield
DmDm             FF
  In this corner ladies and gentlemen
     C majorC             G7G7
Weighing in, all along my love for her is strong
Bb5Bb5         FF          Bb5Bb5
  We scaled pillars to here tonight
              C majorC
It's not the kind of trick you get to pull twice
        FF
It's an ambush girl
        DmDm
A augmentedA cold-blooded low down dirty world
     C majorC
See them yellow lanters walk
      Bb5Bb5
A augmentedA circle around our bit of earth
          FF
It's a turn for the worse
          DmDm
It's off with their heads if they don't learn
      C majorC
We do this over their dead bodies
       Bb5Bb5
Before it's over mine or yours
     FF      C majorC
We don't beg for mercy dear
   DmDm Dm(maj7) Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
If we go      down we go
Bb5Bb5       FF
Down on our own shield
DmDm  Dm(maj7) Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
Down we   go
Bb5Bb5
Down on our own shield
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I am a songwriter (or at least like to call myself one) and this is one of the most
heart breakingly poignant songs I have heard in a long time.

Note - the Dm(maj7)-Bmaj7 run during the chorus is just my attempt to include the bass
line run in an acoustic accompaniment. When researching the names for these chords the
chord that I have labeled as Dm(maj7) was also marked as D MajorD m7 (which didn't jive with my