Because I Could Not Stop For Death Chords by Susan Mckeown

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Because [A] I could not [Eb] stop _ _ for death, he kindly [Bb] stopped for me _ _ _
The [Am] carriage held, [C] but just _ ourselves _
_ [Eb] and _ _ immortality
_ _ [G] _ [Eb] And _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb]
immortality
_ _ _ We _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] slowly drove, [Gm]
he knew no _ haste
[Eb] And I, _ [Gm] I had put away [F] [Bb] my _ [F] labour and [Gm]
my leisure too
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For his _ [Gm] civility, _ _ _ _ [Eb] for _ [F] his _ [Gm] civility
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_ _ _ [Bb] We passed a [F] school [Gm] where children played, [Bb] _ [Eb]
their lessons _ [Gm] scarcely done
[F] We [Bb] _ _
[F] passed through _ [Gm] fields of gazing [F] grain
[Eb] We passed the [Gm] setting sun, we [F] _ [Eb] _
passed [F] the setting [Bb] _ _
_ _ sun _ _
_ _ We _ passed [F] before [Gm] a house that seemed [F] _ [Eb] a _ swelling of [Gm] the ground
_ The [F] _ [Bb] road [F] was _ [Gm] scarcely _ long, _ [F] [Eb] the corners _ _ but a [Gm] mound
The _ [F] _ [Eb] corners _ [F] but a [Gm] mound _
_ Since _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ then, [F] two centuries, [Gm] _ _
but each [F] [Eb] feels _ shorter than [Gm] _
day
_ _ [F] [Bb] Since I [F] first admired [Gm] the horse's head, _ [F] [Eb] it swore _ _ _ [Gm] eternity, _
_ _ _ [F] [Eb] it swore [F] _ _ _ [Bb] eternity
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_ [F] _ Because [Gm] _ _
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_ [F] I could [Gm] not stop _ _ for [Eb] death, he kindly [Gm] stopped for me
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The [F] carriage _ [Gm] held, but just _ [F] ourselves [Eb] _
[Bb] and _ [Eb] _ _ [Gm]
immortality _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
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_ immortality _ _ _
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