Band: The Smiths
Song: Cemetery Gates
Album: The Queen is Dead
Thom Mills [email protected]

C   D   G   Gmaj7 
C   D   G   Gmaj7 
C   D   G   Gmaj7 
C   D   G   Gmaj7 

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

G                                         C 
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones 
                             D 
All those people all those lives 
              Em D C 
Where are they now? 
       G 
With loves, with hates 
                        C 
And passions just like mine 

They were born 
                D 
And then they lived 
             Em D C 
And then they died 

Which seems so unfair 
D              G 
And I want to cry 

               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'm well read, have heard them said 
           Em                       C 
A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more) 

        G 
If you must write prose and poems 
                                  C 
The words you use should be your own 
                     D      Em D C 
Don't plagiarise or take "on loan" 
                  G 
There's always someone, somwhere 
                       C 
With a big nose, who knows 
                           D 
And who trips you up and laughs 
        Em D C 
When you fall 
                         D 
Who'll trip you up and laugh 
          G 
When you fall 

               Bm                G 
You say: "ere long done do does did" 
 Bm                             G 
Words which could only be your own 
     C 
You then produce the text 
       D 
From whence was ripped 
             Em     C 
(some dizzy whore, 1804) 

            G 
A dreaded sunny day 

So let's go where we're happy 
                                C 
And I meet you at the cemetery gates 
            D           Em       D   C 
Keats and Yeats are on your side 
            G 
A dreaded sunny day 

So let's go where we're wanted 
                                 C 
And I meet you at the cemetery gates 
            D           Em       D   C 
Keats and Yeats are on your side - but you lose 
        D          G 
While Wilde is on mine