Singing The Spirit Home chords by Eric Bogle

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: D

🎸 Intro:

C |C/B |Am Asus2 |Am : x2

🎸 Verse 1:
   C      C/B  Am     F      C
They came for him in the morning, an hour before dawning
  C     C/B   Am      F    G
The pale white moon was waning in the African sky
  C     C/B    Am     F       C
The cell door flew wide open, they stood looking at him
  C   C/B      Am     F  G    C
He saw no mercy in their hearts, no pity in their eyes

Am Asus2 |Am :

🎸 Verse 2:
    C    C/B   Am         F         C
As they took him and they bound him, tied his trembling hands behind him
  C    C/B   Am       F      G
He felt his courage leave him, his manhood disappear
  C     C/B  Am      F         C
His legs would not support him, so from the cell they dragged him
  C     C/B     Am         F   G    C
He sobbed and screamed and cursed them in his loneliness and fear

Am Asus2 |Am :

🎸 Chorus:
C    G    C
Chains, chains, chains
  F        G         C
How many souls have died in freedom's name
  F      G        C   C/B  Am
To some it is a way of life, to others just a word
  F      G          C   C/B   Am
To some it is a snow-white dove, to some a bloody sword
   F    G      Am  F         G      C
But until the last chains fall, freedom will make slaves of us all

Am Asus2 |Am |C |G :

🎸 Verse 3:
   C   C/B    Am     F           C
With faces closed and hidden the white guards walked beside him
 C     C/B  Am           F        G
Indifferent to his pleading - they'd been down this path before
  C   C/B    Am    F        C
But other eyes were watching, other ears were listening
C   C/B     Am       F   G     C
Other hearts beat with him in his final desperate hour

Am Asus2 |Am :

🎸 Verse 4:
     C    C/B   Am       F           C
From the darkness of that prison came the sound of his brothers singing
 C       C/B  Am      F      G
Courage, their voices told him, you do not walk alone
      C    C/B   Am    F         C
From their cells beyond the shadow he heard their voices echo
   C    C/B    Am     F    G   C
As in love and pride and sorrow they sang his spirit home

Am Asus2 |Am :

🎸 Chorus:
C    G    C
Chains, chains, chains
  F        G         C
How many souls have died in freedom's name
  F      G        C   C/B  Am
To some it is a way of life, to others just a word
  F      G          C   C/B  Am
To some it is a snow-white dove, to some a bloody sword
   F    G      Am  F         G      C
But until the last chains fall, freedom will make slaves of us all

Am Asus2 |Am |C |G :

🎸 Verse 5:
     C    C/B   Am     F        C
And their song of hope and freedom, it rang inside that prison
  C   C/B    Am      F          G
It beat against the iron bars and crashed against the stone
      C    C/B    Am         F           C
As in their fear and hate they hung him, the last sound that filled his being
    C    C/B   Am    F    G     C
Was his brothers singing, singing, singing his spirit home

🎸 Outro:
  C           G      C
And courage, brother, you do not walk alone.
  C             G        C
And we shall walk with you and sing your spirit home
  C           G      C
And courage, brother, you do not walk alone.
(shosholoza, shosholoza, kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe)
  C             G        C
And we shall walk with you and sing you spirit home
(shosholoza, shosholoza, kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe)
  C          G      C
And courage, sister, you do not walk alone.
(shosholoza, shosholoza, kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe)
  C             G        C
And we shall walk with you and sing your spirit home.
(shosholoza, shosholoza, kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe)
C
Shosholoza, shosholoza
F      G         C
kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe.
C
Shosholoza, shosholoza
F      G         C
kulezo ntaba stimela siphume Zimbabwe