Chimes Of Freedom Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

notes in it, but that's easy enough to get on your own. Each chord lasts the duration of

eighth note.

GFar between sundown's Dfinish, and Gmidnight's broken Ctoll

 We Gducked inside the Cdoorway, Dthunder Gcrashin'

 As majestic bells of Dbolts struck Gshadows in the Csounds

 SeemGing to be the Dchimes of freedom Gflashin'

DFlashing for the warriors whose Gstrength is not to fight

CFlashing for the Grefugees in the Amunarmed road of Dflight

 And for Geach and every Dunderdog Gsoldier in the Cnight

 And we Ggazed upon the Cchimes of Dfreedom Gflashin' G C D G

 In the city's melted Dfurnace, unexpGectedly we Cwatched

 With fGaces hidden Das the walls were Gtightening D

 As the Gecho of the Dwedding bells Gbefore the blowin' Crain

GDissolved into the Dbells of the Glighting

DTolling for the rebel, Gtolling for the rake

CTolling for the Gluckless, the Amabandoned and Dforsaked

GTolling for the Doutcast, Gburnin' constantly at Cstake

G C D G

 And wGe gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

[The rest of the song follows the pattern of the second verse.]

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail

The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze

Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder

Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind

Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind

An' the unpawned painter behind his rightful time

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales

For the disrobed faceless forms of no position

Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts

All down in taken-for-granted situations

Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute

For the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute

For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an' cheated by pursuit

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed

An' the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting

Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones

Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting

Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail

For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale

An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught

Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended

As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look

Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended

Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed

For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse

An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.