Key: A
Introduction:
Am Em Am
How long can this journey go on?
F Am
Will I find the place I'm meant to go?
F
Will dreams fall down around us
Am
Just like the winter snow?
Am Em Am
Another year has come and gone
F Am
Will my luck hold on for one year more?
F
I think of how far I have come
G
And what's been left behind
Am Em Am
When will they carry my body down?
Am Em Am
When will they carry my body down?
F
Will they take it from the river
Am
After I've jumped right in and drowned?
F
Will they find it on the battlefield
G
On the spot I stood my ground?
Am Em Am
I walk alone, I walk apart
F Am
Someday, I'll wander no more
F
I search to find what I have lost
Am
And that which I've never known
Am Em Am
And when I find that I have gone
F Am
Across that river I know
F
I'll take only my memories
G
And things that might have been
Am Em Am
When will they carry my body down?
Am Em Am
When will they carry my body down?
F
Will they cut it from a hangman's noose
Am
After the sentence has come down?
F
Will anyone be there
G
To mourn a villain's passing to the ground?
Am Em Am
When will they carry my body down?
Am Em Am
When will they carry my body down?
Am
When will they carry my body down?