The Grave Chords by Don Mclean

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