Chords for Brompton Oratory (2011 Remaster)

_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C]
Up those stone [Am] steps I'll climb, [Dm]
Hail this joyful [G] _ day's return.
[C] _
Into its great [Am] shadow, bolt I go, _ [Ab] Hail the _ [F] Pentecostal morn.
_ _ [C]
The reading is from [Am] Luke 24, _ [Dm]
Where Christ returned [G] to his loved [C] ones.
I look at the [Am] stone apostles, _ [Ab] Think that it's all right [F] for some.
_ [C] And I wish that I were [Am] made of stone, _ [Dm]
So that I would [G] not have to [C] see
Beauty impossible [Am] to define, _ [Ab] A beauty impossible to [F] believe.
_ [C] A beauty impossible [Am] to endure, _ [Dm]
The blood imparted in [G] little sips.
[C] The smell of you [Am] still on my hands, As [Ab] I bring the cup up to [F] my lip.
_ _ [C] _
And no god [Am] up in the sky, [Dm]
And no devil [G] beneath the sea,
[C]
Could do the [Am] job that you did, baby, [Ab] _
Of bringing me to [F] my knees. _ _
[C] Outside I [Am] sit on the stone [Dm] steps, Where there's nothing [G] much to [C] do.
Alone and [Am] exhausted, baby, [Ab] _
By the absence [F] of you.
_ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ I'm alone [Dm] and exhausted, baby, [G] _ _ _ [C] By the absence of you.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _