{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1749199,"song":"The Conqueror Worm","artist":"Voltaire","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11377259-the-conqueror-worm-chords-by-voltaire/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1749199?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"Use Voltaire's tuning! D G C F A D\r\n\r\n\r\nWell, it's really an easy song with easy chords and strummming patter (It is called \"the six\" in Russia, not \r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nLo! 't is a gala night[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWithin the lonesome latter years! [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAn angel throng, bewinged, bedight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIn veils, and drowned in tears, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSit in a theatre, to see[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nA play of hopes and fears,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhile the orchestra breathes fitfully [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe music of the spheres.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMimes, in the form of God on high, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nMutter and mumble low,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd hither and thither fly - [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nMere puppets they, who come and go [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAt bidding of vast formless things[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThat shift the scenery to and fro,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFlapping from out their Condor wings[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n  Invisible Wo![/tab]\r\n\r\nBridge or whatever - [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThat motley drama - oh, be sure [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIt shall not be forgot![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWith its Phantom chased for evermore [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBy a crowd that seize it not,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThrough a circle that ever returneth in [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]        \r\nTo the self - same spot,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Dm[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd much of Madness, and more of Sin, [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]Em[/ch]                  [ch]Dm[/ch] \r\nAnd Horror  the soul of the plot.[/tab]\r\n\r\n(I start playing bridge on the \"plot\")\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] \r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut see, amid the mimic rout,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nA crawling shape intrude![/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nA blood-red thing that writhes from out [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe scenic solitude![/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt writhes! - it writhes! - with mortal pangs [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe mimes become its food,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd seraphs sob at vermin fangs[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIn human gore imbued.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOut - out are the lights - out all! [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd, over each quivering form,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe curtain, a funeral pall,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]   \r\nComes down with the rush of a storm, [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nWhile the angels, all pallid and wan, [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nUprising, unveiling, affirm[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThat the play is the tragedy, \"Man,\" [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd its hero, the Conqueror Worm.[/tab]\r\n(Again, the bridge)\r\n\r\n\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]","plain_text":"Use Voltaire's tuning! D G C F A D\n\n\nWell, it's really an easy song with easy chords and strummming patter (It is called \"the six\" in Russia, not \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBridge or whatever - Dm Am C Em\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(I start playing bridge on the \"plot\")\nDm Am C Em \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDm Am C Em\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(Again, the bridge)\n\n\nDm Am C Em","chords":["D","G","C","F","A","Am","Em","Dm"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]}}}