Smiths - Cemetery Gates guitar tab

from: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany

lyrics and chords of: Cemetery Gates by The Smiths

Suggestions and corrections are always welcome!

date: 95/10/15

C D G Gmaj7

C D G Gmaj7

C D G Gmaj7

C D G Gmaj7

G

A dreaded sunny day

C

So I meet you at the cemetery gates

D Em D C

Keats and Yeats are on your side

G

A dreaded sunny day

C

So I meet you at the cemetery gates

D Em D C

Keats and Yeats are on your side

D G

While Wilde is on mine

G C

So we go inside and we gravely read the stones

D

All those people all those lives

Em D C

Where are they now?

G

With loves, with hates

C

And passions just like mine

They were born

D

And then they lived

Em D C

And then they died

Which seems so unfair

D G

And I want to cry

Bm

You say: "ere thrice the sun hath door

G

Salutation to the dawn"

Bm G

And you claim these words as your own

C D

But I'm well read, have heard them said

Em C

A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)

G

If you must write prose and poems

C

The words you use should be your own

D Em D C

Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"

G

There's always someone, somwhere

C

With a big nose, who knows

D

And who trips you up and laughs

Em D C

When you fall

D

Who'll trip you up and laugh

G

When you fall

Bm G

You say: "ere long done do does did"

Bm G

Words which could only be your own

C

You then produce the text

D

From whence was ripped

Em C

(some dizzy whore, 1804)

G

A dreaded sunny day

So let's go where we're happy

C

And I meet you at the cemetery gates

D Em D C

Keats and Yeats are on your side

G

A dreaded sunny day

So let's go where we're wanted

C

And I meet you at the cemetery gates

D Em D C

Keats and Yeats are on your side - but you lose

D G

While Wilde is on mine