Grave Of Bonaparte chords by Misc Country

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THE GRAVE OF BONAPARTE

Traditional, Arr. N. & N. Blake

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

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

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


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