My Name Is Death chords by The Incredible String Band

Chords with lyrics

Key: C minorCm

🎸 Verse 1:
C minorCm
I am the question that cannot be answered,
C minorCm
I am the lover that cannot be lost,
C minorCm
Yet small are the gifts of my servant the soldier,
C minorCm                       G+G
For time is my offspring, pray, what is my name?


🎸 Chorus:
  C minorCm     G+G  C minorCm    FF
My name is Death, cannot you see?
  C minorCm      G+G
All life must turn to me;
G+G       C minorCm
Oh cannot you see?
Bb majorBb          C minorCm
And you must come with me,
G+G  Eb MajorEb  DmDm    C minorCm
You must come with me.

🎸 Verse 2:
G+G  C minorCm G+G  C minorCm        AbAb
I'll give you gold and jewels rare,
AbAb      G+G    C minorCm Eb MajorEb
And all my wealth in store.
G minorGm G7G7    C minorCm  FF
All pleasures fair,
Bb majorBb         FF        C minorCm
If I may live but a few short years more.


🎸 Verse 3:
G+G  C minorCm  G+G     C minorCm   FF
Oh lady, lay your jewels aside,
C minorCm     G+G      Bb majorBb
No more to glory in your pride.
Bb majorBb    Eb MajorEb       C minorCm
Tarrying here there is no way,
C minorCm            G+G    Eb MajorEb
Your time has come that you must away,
C minorCm      G+G    C minorCm
And you must come to clay.