The High Kings

Grace(Chords)

The High Kings

Key: G

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	        Intro: G C G C  G C  G 

Verse 
N.C.  G                            C              D 
As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham gaol 
  C                 G              D 
I think about these past few weeks, will they say we've failed? 
         G                                    C              D 
From our schooldays they have told us we must yearn for liberty 
    C             G              Em      D                  G 
Yet all I want in this dark place, is to have you here with me 

D C G Oh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger C G/D G/B D They'll take me out at dawn and I will die C G With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger C G Em D G C G C G C G There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye
Verse N.C. G C D Now I know it's hard for you, my love, to ever understand C G D The love I bare for these brave men, the love for my dear land G C D But when Padraic called me to his side, down in the GPO C G Em D G I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go
D C G Oh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger C G/D G/B D They'll take me out at dawn and I will die C G With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger C G Em D G C G C G C G There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye
Verse C D Now as the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too C G D On this May morn as I walk out, my thoughts will be of you G C D And I'll write some words upon the wall, so everyone will know C G Em D G I loved so much that I could see, his blood upon the rose
D C G Oh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger C G/D G/B D They'll take me out at dawn and I will die C G With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger C G Em D G There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye C G Em D G There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye
Outro: C G C G C G

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