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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
C F C C F G F C C G
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
C F C C F G F C C G