Travelling Alone Chords & Tabs
Here it is, my very first transcription.
The text-program of this site fucked up the chord-positions though. So you gotta figure
them out yourself...
Enjoy nevertheless!
And feel free to improve!
Woods of Ypres - Travelling Alone
(Bbm Ab C# Cm Fm D# G# Gm G#)
(Bbm C# Fm Ab)
(Bbm Cm C#)
Bbm Cm C#
When I was questioned, I shook my head and stared
Bbm Cm C#
I was traveling alone, and had nothing to declare
Bbm Cm C#
He asked how I knew for sure and would I tell everyone I knew
Bbm Cm C#
If it would hurt to know the truth
Bbm Ab C# Cm
I can be thankful to be alive but I despise this life.
Fm D# G# G G#
in all my years, at best, have only learned just to survive.
Bbm C# Fm Ab
But When I look around you I understand why you believe
Bbm Ab
I see your evidence of God, all around me
Bbm C# Fm Ab
You have so therefore you are But I have not.
Bbm Ab
You've seen the evidence of God but I have not and I have none
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Bbm Cm C#
(When he asked me,) I shook my head and laughed
Bbm Cm C#
I never had a taste for life and I felt there was no turning back
Bbm Cm C#
Would I try to take away their hope? Replace it with reality…
Bbm Cm C#
Exchange their joy with my bleak view And leave them miserable like me?
Bbm Ab C# Cm
I have searched and I have tried to find a place where I can be
Fm D# G# Gm G#
I love my homeland dearly but never carved a place in society
Bbm C# Fm Ab
But When I look around you I understand why you believe
Bbm Ab
I see your evidence of God, all around me
Bbm C# Fm Ab
You have so therefore you are, but I have not
Bbm Ab Bbm
You are too rich for hate, and I am too poor to love.
(Bbm Fm Ab)
Fm Bbm Gm Ab
When I asked him, he shook his head and stared
Fm Bbm Gm Ab
I see no evidence of God, in the men from the west
(Fm Bbm Gm Ab )
(Fm)