There Was a Man Chords & Lyrics by Pearls Before Swine

There Was a Man

guitar chords lyrics

Pearls Before Swine

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I think the song is originally played without a capo starting on an A# in stead of a G -
it is, however, easier to play this way:

Ph to Em7 on the Em in the end of each verse.

Capo 3rd

G Am G C

There was a man came to our town
C D Em
He wore a suit of red
G Am G C
He memorized with secret eyes
G D Em D
That he hid away in his head

C D G Em
He had a scar upon his head
C G D
Where there used to be a crown
G Am G C
But he sold his robes at the five and ten
G D Em D
And lived on the edge of town

G Am G C
That fall he showed us a magic leaf
C D Em
That he could change to snow
G Am G C
He bought it partly with his grief
G D Em D
And partly with his soul

C D G Em
He scattered seeds in the alley way
C G D
He never seemed to rest
G Am G C
And when you went to ask him why
G D Em D
All he ever said was yes

G Am G C
He made a swan from waving grass
C D Em
Beside a crystal shore
G Am G C
And a sunrise spun from broken glass
G D Em D
And many things wondrous more

C D G Em
But then his hands began to burn
C G D
When he heard the news from the war
G Am G C
When we cannot find each other he said
Am D Em D
Then we can't run away any more

G Am G C
Next day with tears along his face
C D Em
He passed us on the hill
G Am G C
No one thought to ask him to stay
G D Em D
And he knows that we never will

G Am G C
There was a man came to our town
C D Em
He wore a suit of red
G Am G C
He memorized with secret eyes
G D Em D
That he hid away in our head

Em