The Weight Of Years chords by Idlewild

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Em

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:

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

Em x4

Verse 1:

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

Verse 2:

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

Chorus:

    Em      G          D
And oh, the soul grows heavy
         Em    C    D
With the body
    Em      G          D
And oh, the soul grows heavy
            Em    C    D
Without the body

Verse 3:

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

Chorus:

    Em      G          D
And oh, the soul grows heavy
         Em    C    D
With the body
    Em      G          D
And oh, the soul grows heavy
            Em    C    D
Without the body

Instrumental:

Am Em C D
Am Em C D
G  D  Em C
G  D  Em C

[At this point the song does something odd. The last C stretches out for an extra two beats then goes to D 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.]

Em G D Em C D Chorus chords:

Verse 4:

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

Chorus:

    Em      G          D
And oh, the soul grows heavy
         Em    C    D
With the body
    Em      G          D
And oh, the soul grows heavy
            Em    C    D
Without the body
    Em      G          D
And oh, the soul grows heavy
         Em    C    D
With the body
    Em      G          D
And oh, the soul grows heavy
            Em    C    D
Without the body

B        Em