U2 - Van Diemens Land guitar chord

Van Diemen's Land - U2

chord transcription by stefano (barleycorn@infinito.it)

tune your guitar one half step lower.

chords for the 1st verse:

G C G Gsus4

Hold me now, oh hold me now

Em C D

Til this hour has gone around.

Em C

And I'm gone on the rising tide

G D G

For to face Van Diemen's Land.

same chord pattern for all the other verses:

It's a bitter pill I swallow here

To be read from one so dear.

We fought for justice and not for gain

But the magistrate sent me away.

Now the kings will rule and the poor will toil

And tear their hands as they tear the soil.

But a day will come in this dawning age

When an honest man sees and honest wage.

Hold me now, oh hold me now

Til this hour has gone around.

And I'm gone on the rising tide

For to face Van Diemen's Land.

Still the gunman and widows pay

A scarlet coat now a black beret.

They thought that blood and sacrifice

Could out of death bring forth a life.