Cemetry Gates chords by The Smiths

Chords with lyrics

Intro:

 D MajorD (the single strummed note in the beginning)

| C majorC  G+G | C majorC  G+G |
| C majorC  G+G | C majorC D MajorD G+G |


| G+G
 A augmentedA dreaded sunny day
   | G+G             C majorC  |
 So I meet you at the cemetery gates
| C majorC      D MajorD    | E minorEm    D MajorD  C majorC |
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
| G+G
 A augmentedA dreaded sunny day
   | G+G             C majorC  |
 So I meet you at the cemetery gates
| C majorC      D MajorD    | E minorEm    D MajorD  C majorC |
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
| C majorC   D MajorD      G+G   |
 While Wilde is on mine

| G+G          | G+G         C majorC
 So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
     | C majorC         D MajorD
 All those people all those lives
     |  E minorEm  D MajorD
 Where are they now?
C majorC   | G+G
 With loves, with hates
  | G+G          C majorC |
 And passions just like mine
     | C majorC          D MajorD
 They were born, and then they lived
       | E minorEm   D MajorD  C majorC |
 And then they died,
   |  C majorC    D MajorD     G+G |
 Seems so unfair, I want to cry


    | B minorBm
 You say, "'ere thrice the sun hath door
           G+G
 Salutation to the dawn"
    | B minorBm            G+G
 And you claim these words as your own
| C majorC          | D MajorD
 But I've well read, have heard them said
     | E minorEm           FF
 A augmentedA hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)

   |  G+G
 If you must write prose and poems
  | G+G               C majorC
 The words you use should be your own
   | C majorC       D MajorD | E minorEm  D MajorD  C majorC
 Don't plagiarize or take "on loan"
       | G+G
 There's always someone, somewhere
   | G+G        C majorC
 With a big nose, who knows
  | C majorC           D MajorD
 And who trips you up and laughs
    |  E minorEm  D MajorD C majorC
 When you fall
    | C majorC         D MajorD
 Who'll trip you up and laugh
      G+G
 When you fall

    |  B minorBm         G+G
 You say, "'ere long done do does did"
| B minorBm               G+G
 Words which could only be your own
|  C majorC
 And then produce the text
   | D MajorD
 From whence was ripped
      | E minorEm             FF
 Some dizzy whore, eighteen hundred and four


     | G+G
 A augmentedA dreaded sunny day, o let's go where we're happy
   | G+G             C majorC  |
 And I meet you at the cemetery gates
| C majorC      D MajorD    | E minorEm    D MajorD  C majorC |
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
     | G+G
 A augmentedA dreaded sunny day, o let's go where we're wanted
   | G+G             C majorC  |
 And I meet you at the cemetery gates
| C majorC      D MajorD    | E minorEm    D MajorD  C majorC |
 Keats and Yeats are on your side--but you lose
   | C majorC      D MajorD      G+G
 'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine


Outro:

| C majorC  G+G | C majorC  G+G |
| C majorC  G+G | C majorC  G+G | (slowly fading)
| C majorC  G+G | C majorC  G+G |
| C majorC  G+G | C majorC  G+G |
| C majorC  G+G | C majorC  G+G |

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