Chords
His Grinning Skull

Key: F

Introduction:

difficulty
very easy |||||
 F 
How can you pine anymore
 C 
it is beautiful
 F                       C 
and for all, unavoidable
 F                             C 
so here are his bones
 F                               C 
and his grinning skull
 F                       C 
so now he is home
 F                                       C 
to the bluebottles

 Em                             F 
He who was your bull
 G                                       F 
and made the shadows run
             C 
And I understand
 F                                       C 
in all things he was quite the man
                 F                           C 
but now perched on his skull
       F                           C 
he wears cuckolds horns
 F                             C 
they're growing full
 F                             C 
pushing through the soil
 Em                                             F 
pools gathering round my knees
 G                                                     F 
temptation leers at me from every door
 F                               C 
so these are his bones
 Em                       F                   C 
why won't you leave them alone?
 Em                                 F 
worms crowding her feet
 G                                                             F 
trying to pull me back to their holes
 Em                                 F 
tap-tapping in the room below
 G                                           F 
nothing more than dead piles of bones
 C                                                       Em 
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will'
 C                                                       Em 
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will'
 C                                                       Em 
'I'll eat this young whelp's heaaaaaaaart'
 F         Em 
HEAVE-HO
 F         Em 
HEAVE-HO
 Em                                             F 
with fists for spades we raid his grave
 Em                                           Am 
with big black boots we stomp the roots
 Em                                             F 
with fists for spades we raid his grave
 Em                                           F 
with big black boots we stomp the roof
 F         Em 
HEAVE-HO
 F         Em 
HEAVE-HO
 F         Em 
HEAVE-HO
 Am       F 
HEAVE-HO
 G         Am 
HEAVE-HO