Song information: the song's signature meter is 12/8. BPM is around 100. Listen to the song for the strumming pattern and accents (first chord of the bar is louder than the others). Mostly the pattern consists of downstrokes, but there are variations. Give attention to the rhythm. Play the first chord of the bar fully, the other chords only the 'higher sounding' ones. Chord voicings: D: x00232 Asus4: x00230 G: xx0033 D en G actually have other names (D/A, G/D), but I call them D and G for readability of the chord chart. Intro: Asus4 G x3 D Asus4 D Asus4 D Asus4 D Verse 1:

^DOh to ^Asus4be not a^Dnyone ^Asus4gone this ^Dmaze of being ^Asus4skin

Verse 2:

^Doh to ^Asus4cry not ^Dany cry

so ^Asus4mournful that the ^Ddove just ^Asus4laughs the steadfast ^Dgasps

Verse3:

^Doh to ^Asus4owe not ^Danyone ^Asus4nothing to ^Dbe not ^Asus4here but ^Dhere forsaking equatorial bliss who ^Asus4walked through the^D callow mist ^Asus4dressed in scraps who ^Dwalked the ^Asus4curve of the world ^D whose ^Asus4bone scraped whose ^Dflesh unfurled who ^Asus4grieves not ^Danyone gone to ^Asus4greet ^Dlame the ^Dinspired sky amazed to stumble where ^Asus4gods get ^Dlost ^Asus4beneath the ^Dsouthern cross

Outro: D Asus4 (x5) D G (x4) D D Asus4 D

^Asus4(chord^Ds played over Jeff Buckley's vocal) Coda: ^Dcross over boy cross over Asus4 D Asus4 D Asus4 D G D

Patti Smith - Beneath the southern cross