The Trial chords by Phil Ochs

Chords with lyrics

Ochs plays this with his gutar tuned a half-step down.
E MajorE
  Outside the cats are scratching
DmDm
  Inside the doors are latching
C majorC          FF
  On the room, the greedy gloom
    DmDm    G+G
  The trial is revealed
E MajorE
  Police are six feet deep
DmDm
  With switchblades in their teeth
   C majorC           FF
  So no one leaves and they all believe
      DmDm     G+G
  This is absolutely real
       A minorAm
  Yes, it's real
  And the Sergeant says, "Are you ready, boys?
  Get ready, boys
  Aim...
    G+G    A minorAm
  And Fire...

Order in the court
People ready for the sport
They squirm and squeak and lick their beaks
And grease their feathers down
Everybody rise
Judge is here with bathroom eyes
A augmentedA Grizzly bear, he hugs his chair
And the greedy gavel pounds
Yes, it pounds
And the Sergeant says, "Are you ready, boys?
Get ready, boys
Aim...
And Fire...

In the dungeon's falls
Writing appeals upon the wall
And the priest in prayers is not even there
So precious is his time
To the stake he's tied
The swallows sing the triggers slide
he bids goodbye to the wattery sky that plunges from his mind
From his mind
And the Sergeant says, "Are you ready, boys?
Get ready, boys
Aim...
And Fire...