Chords for Brian May of Queen - '39 (Solo Acoustic Performance) 2006

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_ _ [D] In the year of 39, [E] assembled here the volunteers, [C] in the days [G] when lands [D] were few.
_ [Em] And the ships sailed out [C] into the blue and sunny morn, [D] the _ sweetest sight [G] ever seen.
_ _ [D] And the night followed day, and [Eb] the _ storytellers say [Em] that the score of [A] brave souls inside.
[Am] _ _ _ [G] For many a lonely day, [D] sailed across the milky [C] seas, [Em] never looked back, [D] never [C] feared, [D] never cried. _ _
[G] Don't you hear my call, [C] though you're many [G] years away, don't you hear [C] me [G]
calling [D] you.
_ _ Write your [B] letters [Em] in the sand, for the [G] day I take [Am] your hand, [G] in the land that [A] our grandchildren [G] knew.
_ In [D] the year of 39, [Em] came a shipping from the blue, [C] the volunteers _
[G] came home [D] that day. _
[Em] And they bring good [C] news of a world so newly born, [D] though their hearts so _ [G] heavily weigh.
_ _ [D] For the earth is old and grey, little [Eb] Darwin will away, [Em] but my [A] love this cannot [Am] be.
_ _ [G] So many years have gone, though I'm [D] older but a [C] year, your [Em] mother's [C] eyes, [D] from your [G] eyes cry [D] to me. _ _
Don't [G] you hear my call, [C] though you're many [G] years away, don't you hear me calling [D] you.
_ _ Write your [B] letters [Em] in the sand, for the [G] day [Am] I take your hand, [G] in the [D] land that our [Gbm] [G] grandchildren [D] knew. _
Don't [G] you hear my call, [C] though you're many [G] years away, don't you hear [C] [G] me calling [D] you.
_ _ All your letters [B] [Em] in the sand cannot heal [G] me [Am] like your hand, [Em] for my life [D] still ahead, [G] pity me.
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