The Shadow

Am

[Verse]
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It's over now, the guns have flowed
              G      G7           C     F
The nightmare flashed on a cradle road
              G         E7
As the guilty rain came down
Am                               Dm
No child to hold through anxious fears
          G   G7            C      F
No gentle hand to catch the tears
       G               E7
That soak this ancient ground

[Verse]
    Am                             Dm
The smile that breaks so gently, belies a troubled head
         G                    G7           C
Like the voice that holds the secrets of a life you might have led
G                E7            Am            F
Eyes with pale indifference in danger and in grace
        Dm                    G                    C
But the glance that knows the death-knell left its shadow on your face
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In the deep, enduring darkness as your loyal friends go down
        G                               F        E      F
Touched by the violent crown 'til their hunter's hunted down

[Instrumental]
Am      Dm    G    C  F  G  E7

[Verse]
    Am                       Dm
The web is slowly woven, the endless dreamer shed
       G                   G7            C
In the dawn, the curfew is broken on the Sunday morning's dead
G            E7               Am            F
Centuries of thunder take the castle in the flood
       Dm                G                  C
To the cold night air of London, where your hands are bound in blood
Am                        Dm
Midwinter deepened as the parting turned inside
  G                                 F      E     F
A thousand times you cried, but the shadow never died

[Verse]
     Am                      Dm
It's over now, the guns have flowed
              G      G7           C     F
The nightmare flashed on a cradle road
              G         E7
As the guilty rain came down
Am                               Dm
No child to hold through anxious fears
          G   G7            C      F
No gentle hand, no graceful years
        G           E7
Just bitter ancient ground
     Am
It's over now