Alexander The Great chords by Iron Maiden

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🤘 Intro:
E minorEm D MajorD E minorEm
D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD
E minorEm C majorC E minorEm C majorC E minorEm
Em C majorC E minorEm D/F#D/F#
E minorEm C majorC E minorEm D/F#D/F#


🤘 Verse 1:
E minorEm
Near to the east
       E minorEm
In a part of ancient Greece
   C majorC            E minorEm  D/F#D/F#
In an ancient land called Macedonia
   E minorEm
Was born a son
       E minorEm
To Philip of Macedon
   C majorC           E minorEm D/F#D/F#
The 🏷Legend, his name was Alexan_der

    E minorEm
At the age of nineteen
        E minorEm
He became the Macedon King
     C majorC            E minorEm  D/F#D/F#
And he swore to free all of Asia Minor
    E minorEm
By the Aegean Sea
  E minorEm
In 334 B.C
  C majorC             E minorEm D/F#D/F#
He utterly beat the armies of Per_sia


E minorEm       D MajorD
Alexander the Great
   A minorAm          C majorC     D MajorD
His name struck fear into hearts of men
E minorEm       D MajorD
Alexander the Great
  A minorAm          C majorC   D MajorD
Became a 🏷Legend amongst mortal men

(E minorEm C majorC G+G)
(E minorEm C majorC G+G)
(A minorAm FF E MajorE)
(A minorAm FF E MajorE)

🤘 Verse 2:
E minorEm
King Darius the third
     E minorEm
Defeated fled Persia
   C majorC              E minorEm D/F#D/F#
The Scythians fell by the river Jaxar_tes
   E minorEm
Then Egypt fell
        E minorEm
To the Macedon King as well
    C majorC             E minorEm D/F#D/F#
And he founded the city called Alexan_dria

    E minorEm
By the Tigris river
       E minorEm
He met King Darius again
   C majorC                E minorEm D/F#D/F#
And crushed him again in the battle of Arbela
E minorEm
Entering Babylon
      E minorEm
And Susa, treasures he found
   C majorC             E minorEm D/F#D/F#
Took Persepolis, the capital of Per_sia

E minorEm       D MajorD
Alexander the Great
   A minorAm          C majorC     D MajorD
His name struck fear into hearts of men
E minorEm       D MajorD
Alexander the Great
 A minorAm          C majorC   D MajorD
Became a God amongst mortal men

(BB A augmentedA BB C#C# D#D#)
(E5E5 D#5D#5 E5E5 D#5D#5)
(E5E5 C5C5 D5D5 A minorAm)
(A minorAm C majorC G+G A#A# FF)
(A minorAm C majorC G+G A#A# FF)
(A minorAm C majorC G+G A#A# FF)
(A minorAm C majorC G+G A#A# FF)

🤘 Solo: A minorAm C majorC G+G A#A# FF
    A minorAm C majorC G+G A#A# FF

(A minorAm C majorC G+G A#A# FF)
(E minorEm C majorC G+G)
(D MajorD C majorC D MajorD)
(E minorEm C majorC G+G)
(D MajorD C majorC D MajorD)
(E minorEm C majorC G+G)
(D MajorD C majorC D MajorD)

🤘 Verse 3:
E minorEm
 A augmentedA Phrygian King had bound a chariot yoke
E minorEm
 And Alexander cut the 'Gordian knot'
C majorC
 And 🏷Legend said that who untied the knot
B minorBm              D MajorD
He would become the master of Asia

E minorEm
 Hellenism he spread far and wide
E minorEm
 The Macedonian learned mind
C majorC
 Their culture was a western way of life
B minorBm             D MajorD
He paved the way for Christianity
 E5E5   G5G5 D5D5  E5E5   G5G5 D5D5
Mar___ching on, mar___ching on

E minorEm
 The battle weary marching side by side
E minorEm
 Alexander's army line by line
C majorC
 They wouldn't follow him to India
B minorBm                 D MajorD
Tired of the combat, pain and the glory


E minorEm       D MajorD
Alexander the Great
   A minorAm          C majorC     D MajorD
His name struck fear into hearts of men
E minorEm       D MajorD
Alexander the Great
  A minorAm        C majorC  D MajorD
He died of fever in Baby_lon

Final: E minorEm C majorC E minorEm G+G
    E minorEm C majorC E minorEm G+G
    D/F#D/F# G+G D/F#D/F# E minorEm

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