Hymn: Ivory Elder Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Dm][Am][E][Am][E][Am]

[Verse 1]
Father, oh dear [Am]Father
won't you come in from the cold?
I can hear the drunks in the background
& it's getting kind of old.
Oh [Dm]Father [F]won't you come
in from [Am]the cold?
Someday when I'm older I'll be
eating these here words.
The grand scheme closes in on me,
sobriety grows blurred.
Oh [Dm]Father [F]I'll be eating
these [Am]here words.

[Verse 2]
And [Am]I know that the [C]poison clouds
the screams and [E]the noise and
we nearly got [Am]away this time
but you cannot es[Dm]cape

[Verse 3]
these problems.
[Dm]
Softly [Am]longing for a hero in a
life of living hard.
Tinkling the ivories in
an elephant graveyard.
Oh [Dm]Father [F]won't you stop
living [Dm]so ha[Am]rd?

[Verse 4]
[Am]And I know that the [C]poison clouds
the screams and the [E]noise and
we nearly got [Am]away this time
but you cannot es[Dm]cape these problems.
But these so called [C]heroes
are all so de[E]lirious
that they'll never get [Am]away this time.
Giving up giving up is our [Dm]only crime.

[Interlude 1]
[Dm][Am][E]
[C][Am][F][Dm][Am][E]
[G#dim][E][Am]

[Verse 5]
And I know that the [C]poison clouds
the screams and [E]the noise and
we nearly got [Am]away this time
but you cannot es[Dm]cape these problems.
But these so called [C]heroes are
all so [E]de lirious that
they'll never get [Am]away this time.
Giving up giving up is our
[Dm]only crime.

[Outro 1]
[Dm][Am][E][E][Am]