Cross the green mountain

C      x-3-2-0-1-3
G/b    x-2-0-0-3-3
Am7    x-0-2-2-1-3
Dsus4  x-x-0-2-3-3
Dsus2  x-x-0-2-3-0
Cadd9  x-3-2-0-3-3

[ Intro ]

C         G/b       Am7       G
Am7       G/b       C         Dsus4   D

[ Couplet ]

Am7                G/b      C             D
I cross the green mountain, I sit by the stream
Am7             G/b           C                  D
Heaven blazing in my head, I dreamt a monstrous dream
C          G/b     Am7        Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
Something came up out of the sea
Em                C           D            Em
Swept through the land of the rich and the free

C       G       D

[ Couplet ]

Am7               G/b  C                D
I look into the eyes, of my merciful friend
Am7              G/b    C            D
And then i ask myself, is this the end?
C          G/b     Am7     Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
Memories linger, sad yet sweet
Em           C        D               E
And I think of the souls in heaven who will meet

C       G       D

[ Refrein ]

C           G/b          Am7            G
Altars are burning with flames far and wide
C                    G/b  Am7             Dsus4  D Dsus2  D
The foe has crossed over  from the other side
C               G/b  Am7                  G
They tip their caps  from the top of the hill
Am7                G/b        Cadd9          Dsus4       D
You can feel them come, more brave blood to spill

[ Couplet ]

Am7        G/b  C         D
Along the dim, Atlantic line
Am7           G/b   C                D
the ravaged land, lies for miles behind
C                     G/b    Am7                 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
The light's coming forward and the streets are broad
Em        C     D              E
All must yield to the avenging God

C       G    C  G

[ Refrein ]

The world is old, the world is gray
Lessons of life, can't be learned in a day
I watch and I wait, and I listen while I stand
To the music that comes from a far-better land

[ Couplet ]

Close the eyes of our captain, peace may he know
His long night is done, the great leader is laid low
He was ready to fall, he was quick to defend
Killed outright he was, by his own men

C       G    C  G

[ Couplet ]

It's the last day's last hour, of the last happy year
I feel that the unknown world is so near
Pride will vanish and glory will rot
But virtue lives and cannot be forgot

C       G       D

[ Couplet ]

The bells of leavening have rung
There's blasphemy on every tongue
Let 'em say that I walked in fair nature's light
And that I was loyal to truth and to right

C       G    C  G

[ Refrein ]

Serve God and be cheerful, look upward, beyond
Beyond the darkness of masks, the surprises of dawn
In the deep green grasses of the blood stained world
They never dreamed of surrenderin', they fell where they stood

[ Couplet ]

Stars fell over Alabama, I saw each star
You're walkin' in dreams, whoever you are
Chilled are the skies, keen as the frost
The ground's froze hard and the morning is lost

C       G   C   G

[ Couplet ]

A letter to mother came today
Gunshot wound to the breast is what it did say
But he'll be better soon, he's in a hospital bed
But he'll never be better - he's already dead

C       G   C   G

[ Couplet ]

I'm ten miles outside the city, and I'm lifted away
In an ancient light, that is not of day
They were calm, they were blunt, we knew 'em all too well
We loved each other more than we ever dared to tell

C       G   Cadd9   G