Cemetry Gates chords by The Smiths

Intro:

 D (the single strummed note in the beginning)

| C  G | C  G |
| C  G | C D G |


| G
 A dreaded sunny day
   | G             C  |
 So I meet you at the cemetery gates
| C      D    | Em    D  C |
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
| G
 A dreaded sunny day
   | G             C  |
 So I meet you at the cemetery gates
| C      D    | Em    D  C |
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
| C   D      G   |
 While Wilde is on mine

| G          | G         C
 So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
     | C         D
 All those people all those lives
     |  Em  D
 Where are they now?
C   | G
 With loves, with hates
  | G          C |
 And passions just like mine
     | C          D
 They were born, and then they lived
       | Em   D  C |
 And then they died,
   |  C    D     G |
 Seems so unfair, I want to cry


    | Bm
 You say, "'ere thrice the sun hath door
           G
 Salutation to the dawn"
    | Bm            G
 And you claim these words as your own
| C          | D
 But I've well read, have heard them said
     | Em           F
 A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)

   |  G
 If you must write prose and poems
  | G               C
 The words you use should be your own
   | C       D | Em  D  C
 Don't plagiarize or take "on loan"
       | G
 There's always someone, somewhere
   | G        C
 With a big nose, who knows
  | C           D
 And who trips you up and laughs
    |  Em  D C
 When you fall
    | C         D
 Who'll trip you up and laugh
      G
 When you fall


    |  Bm         G
 You say, "'ere long done do does did"
| Bm               G
 Words which could only be your own
|  C
 And then produce the text
   | D
 From whence was ripped
      | Em             F
 Some dizzy whore, eighteen hundred and four


     | G
 A dreaded sunny day, o let's go where we're happy
   | G             C  |
 And I meet you at the cemetery gates
| C      D    | Em    D  C |
 Keats and Yeats are on your side
     | G
 A dreaded sunny day, o let's go where we're wanted
   | G             C  |
 And I meet you at the cemetery gates
| C      D    | Em    D  C |
 Keats and Yeats are on your side--but you lose
   | C      D      G
 'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine


Outro:

| C  G | C  G |
| C  G | C  G | (slowly fading)
| C  G | C  G |
| C  G | C  G |
| C  G | C  G |