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Without capo for the album version, for live versions most of the times with capo II
CThere's a cross up yonder on Calvary Hill There's a slip of blood on a silver kGnife There's a grFaveyard kidC down below Where at night the dead come to liGfe FWell above the stars theyC crackle and fire A dead man's moon throws seven rGings We’dF put our ears to thCe cold grave stones This is the song they?G??d sing
FWe are alCive And though our bodies lie alone here in the dGark Our spiritsF risCe To carry the fire and light the Fspark To stand shCoulder to shoulder and Gheart to heart
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CA voice cried I was killed in Maryland in 1F877 C When the railroad workers made their staGnd FI was killed inC 1963 One Sunday morning in BiGrmingham I diCed last year crossing the soFuthern dCesert My children left behind in San PGablo Well they’ve lFeft our bodies hCere to rot Oh please let them kGnow
FWe are alCive And though our bodies lie alone here in the dGark Our spiritsF risCe To carry the fire and light the Fspark To stand shCoulder to shoulder and heGart to heart
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Let yFour mind rest easy Sleep weGll my frCiend It’s only our Fbodies that betray us in thGe end
Well I aCwoke last night in the dark and Fdreamy dCeep From my head to my feet my body’dF gone stone cGold There were wForms crawling all arCound me My fingers scratchin’ at an earth black and six footG low
AFlone in the blackness oCf my grave Alone I’d been left toG die Then I hFeard voices calling all C‘round me The earth rose above me My eyes filled with sGky
FWe are alCive And though our bodies lie alone here in the dGark Our spiritsF risCe To carry the fire and light the Fspark To stand shCoulder to shoulder and heGart to heartF C To stand shFoulder to shoCulder and heGart to heartF C F C We are aFlivCe
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