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Cemetry Gates by The Smiths - Guitar Chords

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            [Intro]
D  (the single strummed note in the beginning)
C   G  C   G 
C   G  C  D  G 

[Chorus]
G
A dreaded sunny day
      G                          C   
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
C           D          Em       D   C  
Keats and Yeats are on your side
G
A dreaded sunny day
     G                          C    
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
C           D          Em       D   C  
Keats and Yeats are on your side
C     D           G     
While Wilde is on mine

[Verse 1]
G                     G                  C   
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
          C                  D
All those people all those lives
           Em    D 
Where are they now?
C       G
  With loves, with hates
    G                   C  
And passions just like mine
          C                   D     
They were born, and then they lived
              Em      D   C  
And then they died, 
         C       D         G 
Seems so unfair, I want to cry

[Verse 2]
         Bm
You say, "'ere thrice the sun hath door
                   G  
Salutation to the dawn"
         Bm                        G  
And you claim these words as your own
 C                      D               
But I've well read, have heard them said
          Em                      F
A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
       G
If you must write prose and poems
    G                             C  
The words you use should be your own
      C              D    Em    D   C  
Don't plagiarize or take "on loan"
               G
There's always someone, somewhere
       G                C
With a big nose, who knows
    C                      D
And who trips you up and laughs
         Em   D  C
When you fall
       C                 D
Who'll trip you up and laugh
          G   
When you fall

[Bridge]
          Bm                  G
You say, "'ere long done do does did"
 Bm                             G
Words which could only be your own
  C
And then produce the text
     D               
From whence was ripped
            Em                         F
Some dizzy whore, eighteen hundred and four

[Chorus]
G
A dreaded sunny day
      G                          C   
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
C           D          Em       D   C  
Keats and Yeats are on your side
G
A dreaded sunny day
     G                          C    
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
C           D          Em       D   C  
Keats and Yeats are on your side
C     D           G     
While Wilde is on mine

[Outro]
C   G  C   G  
C   G  C   G  (slowly fading)
C   G  C   G  
C   G  C   G  
C   G  C   G 
        

We also have 49 songs by The Smiths

• A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
• Ask
• Asleep
• Bigmouth Strikes Again
• Cemetry Gates
• Death Of A Disco Dancer
• Frankly Mr Shankly
• Girl Afraid
• Girlfriend In A Coma
• Half A Person
• Hand In Glove
• Heaven Knows Im Miserable Now
• How Soon Is Now
• I Know Its Over
• I Started Something I Couldnt Finish
• I Want The One I Cant Have
• I Wont Share You
• Is It Really So Strange
• Jeane
• Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
• Meat Is Murder
• Never Had No One Ever
• Nowhere Fast
• Paint A Vulgar Picture
• Panic
• Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
• Pretty Girls Make Graves
• Reel Around The Fountain
• Rusholme Ruffians
• Shoplifters Of The World Unite
• Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
• Still Ill
• Stop Me If You Think Youve Heard This One Before
• Stretch Out And Wait
• Suffer Little Children
• Sweet And Tender Hooligan
• That Joke Isnt Funny Anymore
• The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
• The Headmaster Ritual
• The Queen Is Dead
• There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
• These Things Take Time
• This Charming Man
• This Night Has Opened My Eyes
• Unhappy Birthday
• Vicar In A Tutu
• Well I Wonder
• What Difference Does It Make
• William It Was Really Nothing

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