WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Thrice - Beggars Ukulele | Ver. 3
Intro - Am
Am F
All you great men of power, you who boast of your feats -
Am F
Politicians and entrepreneurs.
Am F
Can you safeguard your breath in the night while you sleep?
Am F
Keep your heart beating steady and sure?
G G#dim
As you lie in your bed, does the thought haunt your head
Am D#dim
That you’re really, rather small?
F Em Am
If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.
Am F
All you champions of science and rulers of men,
Am F
Can you summon the sun from its sleep?
Am F
Does the earth seek your counsel on how fast to spin?
Am F
Can you shut up the gates of the deep?
G G#dim
Don’t you know that all things hang, as if by a string,
Am D#dim
O’er the darkness - poised to fall?
F Em Am
If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.
Am F
All you big shots that swagger and stride with conceit,
Am F
Did you devise how your frame would be formed?
Am F
If you’d be raised in a palace, or live out in the streets,
Am F
Did you choose the place or the hour you’d be born?
G G#dim
Tell me what can you claim? Not a thing - not your name!
Am Am* D#dim F
Tell me if you can re - call just one thing,
F* F Em
That’s not a gift in this life?
Dm
Can you hear what’s been said?
C7Maug5 Am D#dim
Can you see now that everything’s grace after all?
F Em Am
If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.
(Am* - accent Am with a finger on 3rd fret on E string)
(F* - Add note with a finger on 3rd fret on E string, technically same as Am* but easier not to change your
whole hand position)
C7Maug5
A I---I-2-I---I---I I---I is supposed to be a fret lol
E I---I---I---I---I
C I---I---I---I---I
G I-1-I---I---I---I
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