A Toast To Those Who Are Gone Chords

A TOAST TO THOSE WHO ARE GONE
by Phil Ochs
 
submitted by Andrea Baroni (baroni_andrea@hotmail.com)
Standard tuning
 
 
C                    Am
Many's the hour I've lain by my window
    C                         Am
and thought of the people who carried the burden
    C                                Am
Who marched in the strange fields in search of an answer
    C                       Am        G7
And ended their journeys an unwilling hero
 
Am               Em                      Am             G7
Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
      Em                       Am
And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
      D7                       G7
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
 
Back in the coal fields of old Harlan county
Some talked of the union, some talked of good wages
And they lined them up in the dark of the forests
And shot them down without asking no questions
 
Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine to the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
 
And over the ocean, to the red Spanish soil
came the lincoln brigade with their dreams
But they fell in the fire of germany's bombing
And they fell 'cause no one would hear their sad warning
 
Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
 
In old Alabama, in old MississippiTwo states of the union so often found guilty
They came on the busses, they came on the marches
And they lay in the jails or they fell by the highway
 
Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
 
The state it was texas, the town it was Dallas
In the flash of a rifle a life was soon over
And nobody thought of the past million murders
And the long list of irony had found a new champion
 
Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
 
 
Notes (Filip Chetwynd bullfishfilip@gmail.com):
This regards the intro as well as the first the lines of each verse. The bassline is only on the A string:
C ₂ ₃ C ₅ B A ₂ ₃ A ₅ ₆
The subscript 2,3,5,6 I wrote to give a sense of rhythm. Since this is a 6/8 beat.
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