Chords for Eulogy For A Black Man

On the Jovan camps with the old
[Eb] Dry cell battery wireless we could get the ABC of a nighttime on the Jovan camps run a aerial up a tree and you got
It [Cm] but of a nighttime you get this magical [D] classical symphonies
[G] _ _ [Eb] _ _ You know you could play [C] back in the swag around the campfire listen to this
magical stuff
Beethoven and you could listen to you know [Gm] show patients
bark and whatnot
[A] _
_ _ instead of writing a [Am] will like the
Majority of [E] people do I just [A] put in the song [Am] what I want done with
[A] Bits to the left when I pass on because my old dad always had that philosophy you come into this world boy
You know without anything and it's only right and proper that you depart the same way
Maybe down in the sacred ground
_ _ _ Keep me from the [D] cold
_ [A] _ _ _ Wrap me in the deep
Warmth _ _ where the stars can see my soul
_ _ _ Take me where them trees stand tall
_ _ By the [D] waters in the river [A] bend
_ _ Let me face the rising sun
_ _ Commit my spirit [D] to the wind
[A] _ _ _ [Em] Make no monuments of moral [F] crowns don't speak my [G] name again when you lay me down
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] Leave me where the forest blooms
_ _ _ [A] In the land that [D] see no cloud
[A] _ _ _ Where the fragrance on the [Em] western wind
[Am] _ Is [A] carried from every springtime [Am] flower
_ _ Give me peace and give me rest
_ _ _ Lay me down [D] on a mountain crest
[A] _ _ _ Very softly without a soul I
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_ [A] _ _ _ [Em] Make no monuments of moral [F] crowns.
Don't speak my [G] name again when [Am] you lay me down
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_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] Very be quick and bury me deep
_ _ _ Without no coffin or shroud it
_ _ _ _ Read me _
_ So _ _ I can nurture the land rebirth
_ [Am] _ Give me joy and give me song
_ _ _ [A] Carry the [D] struggle wide and long
[A] _ _ _ Do not grieve and do not we
_ _ _ _ Model [D] memories are all weak
[A] _ _ _ [Em] Make no monuments of all [F] crowns.
I'll speak my name [G] again when you lay [A] me down
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_ _ _ _ [A] Let the winter do fall on that grave
_ _ _ Let me see [D] the night sky blaze
[A] _ _ _ See the moon in the winter way
_ _ _ Knifing through that [D] cosmic maze
[A] _ _ _ Give me water
_ _ _ _ [E] Don't give me [D] monuments of stone
[A] _ _ _ Give me rainbows in the sky
_ _ Give me back my land [D] in which to [A] die
_ _ [Em] Make no monuments of all crowns.
I'll speak [G] my name again when you lay [A] me down
Don't [D] _
_ _ [D] speak my name again
When you lay [A] me down
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ Don't speak my name again
When you lay me down _
_ _ Don't speak my name again when you lay me [E] down
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_ [N] _ _ _ _ You _