D
D
F#/C#
F#/C#
C#
C#
F#
In Orient where wise I was to
G#
please the way I live.
Come
G#m7
give the beggar chance at hand his life is on his
F#
lip.
Three score a thousand times where
G#
once in Amazon.
Where
G#m7
El Dorado holds the key no keeper holds my
F#
hand.
CHORUS:
Un
Bbm7
chain the gate of
Ebm
solitude, the ruler says you
F#/C#
run.
Run hard unto the
Ab/C
scaffold high
D7
- your chance to
F#/C#
– jump the gun.
C#
F#
Oh, how high the scaffold grows – the
C#7
plant life of your
F#
widow.
In black lace curtains brought you near from
C#7
out the plate glass
F#
window.
F#
Oh, how high the scaffold grows – the
C#7
plant life of your
F#
widow.
In black lace curtains brought you near from
C#7
out the plate glass
F#
window.
F#
The Minotaur with bloody hands is
G#
- enraged by the sun.
G#m7
Caged he by the corpses brought forth by the
F#
dawn.
In Orient is as I told the b
G#
uckshee hangman swears.
For
G#m7
open crypts to silence nylon knots to sway by
F#
prayer.
Repeat Chorus
F#
In Orient where wise I was to
G#
please the way I live.
Come
G#m7
give the beggar chance at hand – his life is on his
F#
lip.
Chorded by David Bisese
