Chords with lyrics
Beggars - Thrice
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Tabbed by: Stanley
Tuning: Standard
Chords and patter Used:
E minorEm
e|---0--------1-------3------4------2-----0----------------------------------|
BB|---1--------1-------3------3------1-----0----------------------------------|
G+G|-----2--------2-------4------4------2--------------------------------------|
D MajorD|------------------------------------------2--------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
FF
All you great men of power, you who boast of your feats -
FF
Politicians and entrepreneurs.
FF
Can you safeguard your breath in the night while you sleep?
FF
Keep your heart beating steady and sure?
E7E7
As you lie in your bed, does the thought haunt your head
D7D7
That you’re really, rather small?
E minorEm
If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.
FF
All you champions of science and rulers of men,
FF
Can you summon the sun from its sleep?
FF
Does the earth seek your counsel on how fast to spin?
FF
Can you shut up the gates of the deep?
E7E7
Don’t you know that all things hang, as if by a string,
D7D7
O’er the darkness - poised to fall?
E minorEm
If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.
FF
All you big shots that swagger and stride with conceit,
FF
Did you devise how your frame would be formed?
FF
If you’d be raised in a palace, or live out in the streets,
FF
Did you choose the place or the hour you’d be born?
E7E7
Tell me what can you claim? Not a thing - not your name!
FF
Tell me if you can recall just one thing,
E minorEm
That’s not a gift in this life?
FF
Can you hear what’s been said?
D7D7
Can you see now that everything’s grace after all?
E minorEm
If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.
Other versions of Beggars
Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Beggars (Ver. 2) by Thrice
