{"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":1732855,"song":"We Are Alive","artist":"Bruce Springsteen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1732855-we-are-alive-chords-by-bruce-springsteen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1732855?type=chord","rating":4.37975,"votes":3,"content":"Without capo for the album version, for live versions most of the times with capo II\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nThere's a cross up yonder on Calvary Hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere's a slip of blood on a silver knife[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThere's a graveyard kid down below[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere at night the dead come to life[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch] \r\nWell above the stars they crackle and fire[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA dead man's moon throws seven rings[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe’d put our ears to the cold grave stones[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThis is the song they’d sing[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]    \r\nWe are alive[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd though our bodies lie alone here in the dark[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOur spirits rise[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo carry the fire and light the spark[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nA voice cried I was killed in Maryland in 1877[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen the railroad workers made their stand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI was killed in 1963[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOne Sunday morning in Birmingham[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI died last year crossing the southern desert[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy children left behind in San Pablo[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell they’ve left our bodies here to rot[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh please let them know[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]    \r\nWe are alive[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd though our bodies lie alone here in the dark[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOur spirits rise[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo carry the fire and light the spark[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]     X2\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nLet your mind rest easy[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSleep well my friend[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt’s only our bodies that betray us in the end[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell I awoke last night in the dark and dreamy deep[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFrom my head to my feet my body’d gone stone cold[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThere were worms crawling all around me[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy fingers scratchin’ at an earth black and six foot low[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAlone in the blackness of my grave[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAlone I’d been left to die[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen I heard voices calling all ‘round me[/tab]\r\nThe earth rose above me\r\n[tab]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy eyes filled with sky[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]    \r\nWe are alive[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd though our bodies lie alone here in the dark[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOur spirits rise[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo carry the fire and light the spark[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart        [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe are alive [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]","plain_text":"Without capo for the album version, for live versions most of the times with capo II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC       F C     C       F G     F       C       C G\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC       F C     C       F G     F       C       C G     X2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe earth rose above me\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC       F C     C       F G     F       C       C 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