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Shearwater - Hail Mary chords
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Intro: C C4 Bb Gm Eb Oh hail Mary, full of death Bb C C4 Sing me a bitter song Eb C C4 As dark as the day is long Bb F C And as black as your eyes are wild Gm Eb Bb C C4 While the hail from the blackened cloud is raking the firmament Eb C C4 Destroying our argument Bb F C About the temperature and the time Dm Gm C Wild and unbroken C C4 Bb [ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/s/shearwater/307280.html ] Gm Eb Bb C C4 We lay like a wounded lamb, facing a billygoat Eb C C4 Bowed down in our heavy coats Bb F C Under the force and the threat of his eyes Gm Eb And we march in our rows and rows Bb C C4 Under a burning hand Eb C C4 Past the scars of the wounded land Eb Bb C Into a country of thorns and spines Dm Gm C C4 Wild and unbroken Gm C Oh, God save the chamberlain Gm C Oh, God save his appointed successor Gm C Eb F C But God saved his hardest face for you and all your kind C That's what's troubling me Gm Eb Bb C C4 Eb C C4 Bb F C Gm Eb Hail Mary, sick and proud Bb And holding aloft the light Eb C C4 That would burn through a heaving night Eb Bb C And then leave us upon the rocks Gm Eb And the child who is nearly born Bb C C4 Waits just to do you harm Eb C C4 Like the shock of a broken arm Bb F C Or a love that would burn you blind Dm Wild and unbroken C C4 Bb  |