Chords for Kära syster mig nu lyster, Fredmans Epistel N:o 24

[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Dear _ sister, _ _ I now listen _ to [Fm]
you _ [Cm] speak, for I die _ _ [Fm] with you _ [Cm] speak, for I _ die.
_ _ Double beer, good [Bb] _ [Eb] humor. _ _ _ _
Simple beer, I never _ [Gm] _ taste.
[Eb] _ Burn my thirst, [Bb] my [Eb] heart _ [Bb] shakes.
_ _ _ _ [Fm] Oh, I [Bbm] stand at the grave's _ [Fm] _ edge,
_ like [Ab] a [G] roof [Ab] in a [Eb] hero's cloak,
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ guarded _ _ and [Gm] _ disappeared _ _ [Ab] _ for [D] my _ own [Eb] _ _ [Gm] _
_ [Cm] _ shadow's sake. _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ Dear _ sister, _ _ I now _ desire to be taken _ in a soup.
Then _ [F]
I walk in my dark [Am] _ _
depths,
[F] _ out [Gm] of a peck, [F] _
the crow _ _ sends a [G] sound.
_ _ _ _ [F] _ Take me, _ _ _ _ dear [C] mother, I hiccup,
_ _ [Am] [F] bathed in black, [Gm]
in longing.
[C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] Wretched _ _ times, what _ _ suffering, _ _
[Fm] only the [Cm] course is _ _ defeated.
_ _ _ Only [Fm] _
the [Cm] course _ [Gm] _ [Cm] is defeated.
_ _ _ _ Better _ buy [Eb] on the fire, wine, _ foss,
but _ then _ I live _ _ [Gm] in _ _ honor.
_ [Eb] _ _ Other heroes _ _ then, and [Gm] Vera,
_ _ [Fm] can you believe, _ _ dear mother, _ _
I [Bb] would [G] be [Cm] a [Gm] soup so [Cm] _ big. _
I would soup, and if [G] you believe,
[Cm] I would be like [Fm] _
_ [Cm] a rune in a [Gm] sluice [Cm] door.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ Wretched times, _ what _ _ suffering,
_ in the middle of the [G] _ rangel, I fall _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ down to the glass.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] Soups, several, [F] _ give me more.
[G] No one will _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ [F] wake _ me, _
shall me [C] all sleep,
_ [Am]
like a [Bb] big [Gm]-named _ _
[C] king's man. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ Sisters, hear _ me,
when in the hall, _ _
[Fm] up on the [Cm] table, _ glass and soup.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ [Gm] Glass [Cm] and soup.
_ _ _ Drink _ my glass, then [Bb] all _ [Eb] _
together,
_ sing about love, [Bb] _
_ [Eb] wine and [Gm] happiness,
_ [Eb]
if there is left [Gm] a thirsty _ _ cup,
_ [Fm] _ and about how a _ rusty man,
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Paradise [Gm] _ [Cm] can win. _ _ _
_ If the one, [Gm] _
[Cm] blue,
[G] when _ _ [Cm] _ _
[Fm] he _ [C] first found the [Gm] _
[Cm] drunk.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _
Sisters, hear me,
the brown door,
_ _ closed for all,
_ [Gm] _ [C] go home. _ _
_ Spread [F] my hand,
_ let _ the cup be poured.
[C] _ _ _ [Fm] _
Not [Gm] the [C] drop,
_ [F] _ hold the cup, [G] but _ _ _
I [F] _ _ must go, goodbye.
_ _ _ But your [Bb]
[C] brain and _ [Am] body, _ _ _
in [F] the soup [Gm] I thirst [C]
again.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _