The Grave - Don Mclean (with lyrics) Chords

The grave that they dug him had flowers
_ _ Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors _ and the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his
Gravestone _ he's gone
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ When the [Am] wars of our [G] nation did beckon
_ [A] The [C] man barely [G] 20 did [E] answer the calling _
[A] Proud of the trust that [C] he placed in our [E] nation _
[A] He's gone
_ _ But eternity [D] knows him _ [A#] and it [E] knows what we've done _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] and the rain fell [F#] like pearls
_ [Bm] on the leaves of [E] the flowers
_ [Am] leaving brown [F#] muddy clay
_ [Dm] Where the earth had been [E] dry _ [Am] and deep in the [F#] trench _
[Bm] He waited [E] four hours
[C] As he held to his rifle and
[D] _ Prayed [E] not to die
[Dm] _ But the silence of night
_ [Am] Was shattered [A] by the fire _
[Dm] His guns [D] and grenades [Am] blasted sharp through the air
_ _ [Dm] one after [D] another
[Am] His comrades were slaughtered _
[C] in a morgue of Marines
_ [D] alone
Standing [E] there
[F] He crouched ever lower
Never lower was [Am] fear.
They can't let me die
They can't let me die [Am] here
_ [F] I'll cover myself
with the mud and the earth
I'll cover myself
_ I'm not [E]
brave [C] The earth
_ [Dm] the earth _
The [E] earth is my grave _
[D] The _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [A#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] grave that they dug [G] him had flowers _ _
[C] _ Gathered from the [B] hillsides and bright [E] summer colors and the [A] brown earth bleached
[C] White at the edge [E] of his grave _ _ _
He's gone _ _ _ _ _
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