Cifras
Changing Of The Guards

Tono: G

Introducción:  Ab  

dificultad
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                 Fm 
Sixteen years,
               Ab               Eb                         Fm 
Sixteen banners united over the fields
                     Db                       Eb 
While the good shepherd grieves
                     Fm               Ab                   Eb 
Desperate men, desperate women divided,
                                 Fm                             Db  Eb     Ab 
Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves.
                 Fm 
Fortune calls.
                 Ab                             Eb                                       Fm 
I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,
                             Db                                   Eb                                             Fm 
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.
                             Ab                           Eb                                       Fm 
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born,
                               Db     Eb               Ab 
On midsummer's eve, near the tower.
(Interlude)
                                   Fm 
The cold-blooded moon.
                         Ab                                   Eb 
The captain waits above the celebration
                         Fm                       Db           Eb 
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
                         Fm                       Ab           Eb 
Whose ebony face is beyond communication.
                               Fm                                                               Db               Eb           Ab 
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.
                                 Fm 
They shaved her head.
                                           Ab                           Eb 
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo.
                         Fm                         Db                     Eb 
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale.
                                     Fm                   Ab                                 Eb 
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow,
                       Fm                                                               Db  Eb           Ab 
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.
(Interlude)
                                   Fm 
I stumbled to my feet.
                         Ab                                 Eb 
I rode past destruction in the ditches
                   Fm                                                           Db                           Eb 
With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo.
                   Fm                   Ab                                     Eb 
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
           Fm                                                           Db   Eb       Ab 
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.
                             Fm 
The palace of mirrors
                     Ab                         Eb 
Where dog soldiers are reflected,
                         Fm                     Db                 Eb 
The endless road and the wailing of chimes,
                     Fm                           Ab                     Eb 
The empty rooms where her memory is protected,
                     Fm                                                       Db             Eb                 Ab 
Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
(Interlude)
                             Fm 
She wakes him up
                                     Ab                               Eb 
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
                         Fm                                 Db                             Eb 
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks.
                                   Fm                       Ab                                   Eb 
She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking
                                   Fm                                                             Db         Eb           Ab 
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.
                             Fm 
Gentlemen, he said,
                 Ab                           Eb                                             Fm 
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
                                 Db                                               Eb 
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
                               Fm                                     Ab                 Eb 
But Eden is burning, either get brave for elimination
                             Fm                                                                   Db             Eb           Ab 
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
(Interlude)
                       Fm 
Peace will come
                   Ab                   Eb                                               Fm 
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
                   Db                 Eb                                               Fm 
But will offer no reward when her false idols fall
         Ab                         Eb                             Fm 
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
                         Db                     Eb                   Ab 
Between the King and the Queen of Swords.
 Fm         Ab   Eb 
Fm...
One word of note:   It is much easier to play this song with a capo on the
                   Em  G  DEm  CD... 
makes it more easier and does not make the guitar sound too choppy.