Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

- 0,2,2,0,0,0

- x,3,2,0,1,0

- x,x,0,2,3,2

- x,x,1,2,1,2

- x,0,2,0,2,0

- x,2,1,2,0,0

- x,0,2,2,1,0

Intro

 All you great men of power, you who boast of your feats

 Politicians and entrepreneurs

 Can you safeguard your breath in the night while you sleep

 Keep your heart beating steady and sure

 As you lie in your bed, does the thought haunt your head

 That you’re really, rather small

 If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.

 All you champions of science and rulers of men,

 Can you summon the sun from its sleep

 Does the earth seek your counsel on how fast to spin

 Can you shut up the gates of the deep

 Don’t you know that all things hang, as if by a string,

 O’er the darkness, poised to fall?

 If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.

 All you big shots that swagger and stride with conceit,

 Did you devise how your frame would be formed

 If you’d be raised in a palace, or live out in the streets,

 Did you choose the place or the hour you’d be born

 Tell me what can you claim? Not a thing, not your name

 Tell me if you can recall just one thing,

 That’s not a gift in this life

 Can you hear what’s been said

 Can you see now that everything’s grace after all

 If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.