Chords
The Scaffold

Key: F

Introduction: D    D    F#/C#    F#/C#    C#    C#    

difficulty
intermediate |||||
F#                                                                         Ab  
In Orient where wise I was to please the way I live
             Abm7                                                                                                                         F#  
Come give the beggar chance at hand his life is on his lip
                                                                                             Ab  
Three score a thousand times where once in Amazon
                Abm7                                                                                                      F#  
Where El Dorado holds the key no keeper holds my hand
     Bbm7                                    Ebm                                                                    F#/C#  
Unchain the gate of solitude, the ruler says you run
                                                Ab/C                            D7                                      F#/C#                                    C#  
Run hard unto the scaffold high    -    your chance to    -    jump the gun
F#                                                                                              C#7                                         F#  
Oh, how high the scaffold grows - the plant life of your widow
                                                                                                                        C#7                                            F#  
In black lace curtains brought you near from out the plate glass window
F#                                                                                              C#7                                         F#  
Oh, how high the scaffold grows - the plant life of your widow
                                                                                                                        C#7                                            F#  
In black lace curtains brought you near from out the plate glass window
F#                                                                                      Ab  
The Minotaur with bloody hands is    -    enraged by the sun
Abm7                                                                                                            F#  
Caged he by the corpses brought forth by the dawn
                                                                          Ab  
In Orient is as I told the buckshee hangman swears
          Abm7                                                                                                              F#  
For open crypts to silence nylon knots to sway by prayer
(Refrão)
F#                                                                         Ab  
In Orient where wise I was to please the way I live
             Abm7                                                                                                                              F#  
Come give the beggar chance at hand - his life is on his lip