{"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":2543184,"song":"Hymn To Breaking Strain","artist":"Leslie Fish","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11512902-hymn-to-breaking-strain-chords-by-leslie-fish/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2543184?type=chord","rating":4.49461,"votes":6,"content":"This is an adaptation of the poem \"Hymn Of Breaking Strain\" by Rudyard Kipling (1935)\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe careful text-books measure - Let all who build beware![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe load, the shock, the pressure material can bear:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSo, when the buckled girder lets down the grinding span[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe blame of loss, or murder, is laid upon the man[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNot on the Steel - the Man![/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut, in our daily dealing with stone and steel, we find[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe Gods have no such feeling of justice toward mankind[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTo no set gauge they make us, for no laid course prepare[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIn time they overtake us with loads we cannot bear:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nToo merciless to bear[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe prudent text-books give it in tables at the end[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe stress that shears a rivet, or makes a tie-bar bend[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhat traffic wrecks macadam - what concrete should endure[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut we, poor Sons of Adam, have no such literature[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTo warn us or make sure![/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe hold all Earth to plunder - all Time and Space as well[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nToo wonder-stale to wonder at each new miracle[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTill in the mid-illusion of Godhood 'neath our hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nFalls multiple confusion on all we did or planned[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe mighty works we planned[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe only in Creation - how much luckier the bridge and rail![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAbide the twin damnation: to fail and know we fail[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYet we - by which sole token we know we once were Gods[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTake shame in being broken, however great the odds[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe Burden or the Odds[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOh, veiled and secret Power, whose paths we seek in vain[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBe with us in our hour of overthrow and pain[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThat we - by which sure token we know Thy ways are true[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]A7[/ch] \r\nIn spite of being broken, or because of being broken[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nRise up and build anew[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nStand up and build anew![/tab]","plain_text":"This is an adaptation of the poem \"Hymn Of Breaking Strain\" by Rudyard Kipling (1935)","chords":["Em","G","A","C","D","A7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}