The Weight Of Years chords by Idlewild

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: E minorEm

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:

In this song you should play bass notes and pluck the top 3 strings alternately:

E minorEm x4

Verse 1:

E minorEm            D MajorD
Girls, be good to these spirits
E minorEm      D MajorD
Of music and poetry
   E minorEm        D MajorD
And lift the lyre so clear and sweet
E minorEm       C majorC  D MajorD
They meet with you

Verse 2:

  E minorEm       D MajorD
And as for me this body
     E minorEm     D MajorD
Which is now so arthritic
 E minorEm
I cannot play
  D MajorD      E minorEm    C majorC     D MajorD
Can hardly even hold the instrument

Chorus:

  E minorEm   G+G     D MajorD
And oh, the soul grows heavy
     E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD
With the body
  E minorEm   G+G     D MajorD
And oh, the soul grows heavy
      E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD
Without the body

Verse 3:

E minorEm     D MajorD
Some gloomy poems
   E minorEm          D MajorD
Came from these thoughts
  E minorEm         D MajorD
And useless we are all born
    E minorEm  C majorC    D MajorD
To lose life like we lose our youth

Chorus:

  E minorEm   G+G     D MajorD
And oh, the soul grows heavy
     E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD
With the body
  E minorEm   G+G     D MajorD
And oh, the soul grows heavy
      E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD
Without the body

Instrumental:

A minorAm E minorEm C majorC D MajorD
A minorAm E minorEm C majorC D MajorD
G+G D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
G+G D MajorD E minorEm C majorC

[At this point the song does something odd. The last C majorC stretches out for an extra two beats then goes to D MajorD for
two beats then back into the chorus chords as if nothing happened. I believe it's to illustrate the singer's
succumbing to the Weight of Years, but don't advise including it until you're confident.]

E minorEm G+G D MajorD E minorEm C majorC D MajorD Chorus chords:

Verse 4:

     E minorEm        D MajorD
And so I stepped in quite clearly
     E minorEm     C majorC  D MajorD
From my hiding place
  E minorEm        D MajorD
To then suspect that she would grow old and gray
E minorEm   C majorC      D MajorD
And he despaired in his mortal way and said

Chorus:

  E minorEm   G+G     D MajorD
And oh, the soul grows heavy
     E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD
With the body
  E minorEm   G+G     D MajorD
And oh, the soul grows heavy
      E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD
Without the body
  E minorEm   G+G     D MajorD
And oh, the soul grows heavy
     E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD
With the body
  E minorEm   G+G     D MajorD
And oh, the soul grows heavy
      E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD
Without the body

BB    E minorEm