Grave Of Bonaparte chords by Misc Country

THE GRAVE OF BONAPARTE

Traditional, Arr. N. & N. Blake

G                 C       D
On a lone, barren isle, ...
               G      D
Assail the stern rock and the ...
  G             C      G
The hero lies still where the dew...
   C       G       D    G
Like fond, weeping mourners...
     D              G      C
   The lightning may flash and the ...
         G         D   A    D
   He eats not, he hears not, he's ...
    G               C        G
   He sleeps his last ...
    C     G      D   G
   No sound can awake ...
          C      D   G
   No sound can awake ....

G               C      D
Oh shade of the mighty, ...
                 G        D
That rushed but to ...
 G             C     G
Alas, they have perished ...
  C       G       D     G
And all, save the fame, ...
     D             G      C
   The trumpet may sound and the ...
            G         D  A    D
   They eat not, they hear not, ...
     G                 C         G
   They sleep their last sleep, ...
    C     G      D   G
   No sound can awake ...
          C      D   G
   No sound can awake them ...

G             C      D
Yet, spirit immortal, ...
                G       D
For like thine own eagle, ...
   G              C     G
Thou springest from bondage, ...
 C       G       D     G
A name which, before thee, no ...
     D            G       C
   Tho' nations may ...
          G        D   A    D
   No more on thy steed wilt ...
     G                 C        G
   Thou sleep'st thy last ...
    C     G      D   G
   No sound can awake ...
          C       D   G
   No sound can awake ...


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-Bo Parker
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