Eye Of The Day chords by Frank Turner

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
C majorC


Verse:
C majorC
They called me Margaretha the day that I was born
DmDm         C majorC          G+G
The day I died the soldiers called me H21
    A minorAm           FF
In the circuses and palaces, a hundred names I've borne
     C majorC             G+G
From the Belle of the Epoque to the eye of the storm
    A minorAm               G+G    C majorC
But if anybody asks, I named myself after the sun

    C majorC
I was a teacher when I was young
   G+G       C majorC
But I ran away from home
    FF        G+G     FF
To the East Indies and warm, warm sun
          G+G  C majorC
To wed a man I did not know
         G+G C majorC
He called me Lady MacLeod
    G+G       C majorC
But the times did not allow
    FF     C majorC    G+G    E minorEm FF
My complaints as drinking dragged him down
          G+G C majorC
So in dancing peace I found


Verse 2:
C majorC
They called me a tourist when I began to dance
  A minorAm     C majorC            G+G
An amateur and courtesan when I came to France
    A minorAm          FF
On the stages, in the salons, I held my tongue
   C majorC             G+G
I was never owned by any man nor known by anyone
    A minorAm               G+G    C majorC
And if anybody asks, I named myself after the sun

  A minorAm          G+G  C majorC
I never cared much for their war
    G+G        C majorC
I had seen men fight before
            G+G      E minorEm FF
Seen the sickness in their esprit de corps
          G+G   C majorC
I would dance for them no more
          G+G  C majorC
They came to take me away
      G+G      C majorC
From the Hotel Champs Elysée
     FF    C majorC    G+G  E minorEm FF
Told the soldiers I've nothing to say
              D7D7
They wouldn't have listened anyway
 E7E7            A minorAm    A augmentedA   FF
Too many men had died, and somebody had to pay
          G+G     C majorC
They set a date for my dying day

Bridge:
    DmDm                C majorC
But as I stood in that killing field, refusing a blindfold
FF        A minorAm        D MajorD
Staring down the soldiers and the hatred of the world
      DmDm             A minorAm       C majorC
I felt the warmth of the Malay sun and I smiled for them all
     A minorAm
They all thought they had the best of me
    D MajorD               G+G       G7G7
But not one of them could say what I was called


Verse 3:

Just before the darkness came

I whispered my real name
              FF
I am Mata Hari, eye of the day
           G+G    C majorC
In the cells my body lay unclaimed

C majorC   G+G   A minorAm  FF  C majorC  G7G7

A minorAm             G+G       FF
If anybody asks, I named myself after the sun
A minorAm             G+G       C majorC
If anybody asks, I named myself after the sun