Beneath The Southern Cross chords by Patti Smith

Chords with lyrics

Song information: the song's signature meter is 12/8. BPM is around 100. Listen to the
song for the strumming pattern and accents (first chord of the bar is louder than the
others). Mostly the pattern consists of downstrokes, but there are variations. Give
attention to the rhythm.
Play the first chord of the bar fully, the other chords only the 'higher sounding' ones.

Chord voicings:
D: x00232
Asus4: x00230
G: xx0033

D MajorD en G+G actually have other names (D/A, G/DG/D), but I call them D MajorD and G+G for readability of
the chord chart.

Intro:
G+G x3
Asus4Asus4
D MajorD

Verse 1:
D MajorD
Oh
  Asus4Asus4
to be
   D MajorD
not anyone
Asus4Asus4
gone
   D MajorD
this maze of being
Asus4Asus4
skin

Verse 2:
D MajorD
oh
  Asus4Asus4
to cry
  D MajorD
not any cry

  Asus4Asus4
so mournful that
  Asus4Asus4
the dove just laughs
       D MajorD
the steadfast gasps
Verse3:
D MajorD
oh
  Asus4Asus4
to owe
  D MajorD
not anyone
Asus4Asus4
nothing
  D MajorD
to be
  Asus4Asus4
not here
  D MajorD
but here
forsaking
equatorial bliss
  Asus4Asus4
who walked through
  D MajorD
the callow mist
Asus4Asus4
dressed in scraps
  D MajorD
who walked
  D MajorD
the curve of the world
   Asus4Asus4
whose bone scraped
   D MajorD
whose flesh unfurled
  Asus4Asus4
who grieves not
D MajorD
anyone gone
  D MajorD
to greet lame
  D MajorD
the inspired sky
amazed to stumble
   D MajorD
where gods get lost
Asus4Asus4
beneath
  D MajorD
the southern cross

Outro:
Asus4Asus4 (x5)
D MajorD
D
(chords played over Jeff Buckley's vocal)

Coda:
D MajorD
cross over boy
cross over