This is a pretty easy song, I suck at fingerpicking and
I figured it out easily. Here it is:
Standard Tuning (EADGBE)the picking is the same through
the whole song.
Chords:
Am Am5 Fmaj7 F G G(?) Am5 Am6 E|-0---1---0-----1---3---4----1---2---0---||-1---1---1-----1---3---3----1---1---0---||-2---2---2-----2---4---4----2---2---1---||-2---2---3-----3---0---0----2---2---2---||-0---0---3-----3---0---0----0---0---2---||-0---0---0-----0---0---0----0---0-------|
Intro|--0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-----------||--1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1-----------||--2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-----------||------------------------------------------||----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---------||------------------------------------------|
Am Am5? |--0---0---0---0---1---1---1---1-----| |--1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1-----| |--2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-----| |------------------------------------| |----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---| |------------------------------------|
Fmaj7 F - if easier just barre the E & B |--0---0---0---0---1---1---1---1-----| |--1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1-----| |--2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-----| |------------------------------------| |----3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---| |------------------------------------|
Am Am5 |--0---0---0---0---1---1---1---1-----| |--1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1-----| |--2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-----| |------------------------------------| |----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---| |------------------------------------|
Fmaj7 F |--0---0---0---0---1---1---1---1-----| |--1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1-----| |--2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-----| |------------------------------------| |----3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---| |------------------------------------|
G G(?) |--3---3---3---3---4---4---4---4-----| |--3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-----| |--4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4-----| |------------------------------------| |----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---| |------------------------------------|
Am5 Am6 |--1---1---1---1---2---2---2---2-----| |--1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1-----| |--2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-----| |------------------------------------| |----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---| |------------------------------------|
Am5 E |--1---1---1---1---0---0---0---0-----| |--1---1---1---1---0---0---0---0-----| |--2---2---2---2---1---1---1---1-----| |------------------------------------| |----0---0---0---0---2---2---2---2---| |------------------------------------|
Intro: Am x8
Am
All you great men of power
Am5
you who boast of your feats
Fmaj7 F
politicians and entrepreneurs
Am Am5
can you safeguard your breath in the night
while you sleep
Fmaj7 F
keep your heart beating steady and sure
G
as you lie in your bed
G(000434)
does the thought haunt your head
Am5 Am6
that your really rather small
Am5 E
if there's one thing I know in this life
Am
we are beggars all
Am x8
Am Am5
All you champions of science and rulers of men
Fmaj7 F
Can you summon the sun from it's sleep?
Am Am5
Does the earth seek your council on how fast to spin?
Fmaj7 F
Can you shut up the gates of the deep?
G G(?)
Don't you know that all things hang as if by string
Am5 Am6
over darkness, poised to fall?
Am5 E Am
If there's one thing I know in this life, we are beggars all
Am x8
Am Am5
All you big shots who swagger and stride with conceit
Fmaj7 F
Did you devise how your frame would be formed?
Am Am5
If you'd be raised in a palace or left out on the streets?
Fmaj7 F
Or Choose the place or the hour you'd be born?
G G(?)
Tell me what can you claim not a thing, not your name
Am5 Am6 Am5 E
Tell me if you can recall just one thing, not a gift, in this life
Am5 E
Can you hear what's been said, can you see
Am
now that everything's grace
Am6
after all
Am5 E Am
If there's one thing I know in this life, we are beggars all
