Weeping chords by Josh Groban

Chords with lyrics

This song is best known nowadays for Josh Groban's cover but it was written by Dan Heymann.
I am a total beginner so this is most likely not in the original key... but I
couldn't find any other version online so here you go. You can use your own
judgment and style for the timing of the D7D7 chord as the pickup to the next
measure, or even go straight from A augmentedA to D7D7 if you like, especially right before the
last line (the repeat). I've tried to space out the chorus to show how the chords
fall in the rests between lyrics.

Verse:
  D MajorD   A augmentedA    D MajorD    A augmentedA
I knew a man who lived in fear

    D MajorD      G+G       D MajorD    A augmentedA
It was huge, it was angry, it was drawing near

  D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD    A augmentedA
Behind his house a secret place

     D MajorD      G+G        A augmentedA   D MajorD
Was the shadow of the demon he could never face.

Bridge:
  E minorEm   A augmentedA    E minorEm     A augmentedA
He built a wall of steel and flame

   E minorEm    G+G    A augmentedA    D MajorD
And men with guns to keep it tame

    D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD    A augmentedA
Then standing back he made it plain

      D MajorD       G+G     A augmentedA   D MajorD
That the nightmare would never ever rise again

D7D7    G+G      D MajorD      A augmentedA   D MajorD
But the fear and the fire and the guns remain.

Chorus:
G+G       D MajorD     G+G      D MajorD
  It doesn't matter now,  it's over anyhow

G+G        D MajorD        A augmentedA  D MajorD   D7D7
  He tells the world that it's sleeping

G+G       D MajorD        G+G       D MajorD
  But as the night came round,  I heard its lonely sound

G+G      D MajorD        A augmentedA   D MajorD   D7D7
  It wasn't roaring, it was  weeping

G+G       D MajorD       A augmentedA   D MajorD
  It wasn't roaring, it was  weeping.

Verse:
And then one day the neighbours came
They were curious to know about the smoke and flame
They stood around outside the wall
But of course there was nothing to be heard at all

Bridge:
"My friends," he said, "We've reached our goal
The threat is under firm control
As long as peace and order reign
I'll be damned if I can see a reason to explain
Why the fear and the fire and the guns remain."

Chorus (repeat above)

The chords for the ad lib break before the final ending are: