WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Thrice - Beggars Ukulele | Ver. 2
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Beggars - Thrice
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Tuning: Standard
Chords and patter Used:
Bm C D B7 A7 Bm
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Bm C
All you great men of power, you who boast of your feats -
Bm C
Politicians and entrepreneurs.
Bm C
Can you safeguard your breath in the night while you sleep?
Bm C
Keep your heart beating steady and sure?
D B7
As you lie in your bed, does the thought haunt your head
Bm A7
That you're really, rather small?
C Bm
If there's one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.
Bm C
All you champions of science and rulers of men,
Bm C
Can you summon the sun from its sleep?
Bm C
Does the earth seek your counsel on how fast to spin?
Bm C
Can you shut up the gates of the deep?
D B7
Don't you know that all things hang, as if by a string,
Bm A7
O'er the darkness - poised to fall?
C Bm
If there's one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.
Bm C
All you big shots that swagger and stride with conceit,
Bm C
Did you devise how your frame would be formed?
Bm C
If you'd be raised in a palace, or live out in the streets,
Bm C
Did you choose the place or the hour you'd be born?
D B7
Tell me what can you claim? Not a thing - not your name!
Bm A7 C
Tell me if you can recall just one thing,
Bm
That's not a gift in this life?
Bm C
Can you hear what's been said?
Bm Bm Bm A7
Can you see now that everything's grace after all?
C Bm
If there's one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.