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from: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany

e-mail: Christian_Korbanka@msn.com

lyrics and chords of: Cemetery Gates by The Smiths



Suggestions and corrections are always welcome!

date: 95/10/15





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