Key: A
Am
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
C
There's a pain goes on and on.
Dm
Empty chairs at empty tables
E
Am
Now my friends are dead and gone.
Am
Here they talked of revolution.
C
Here it was they lit the flame.
Dm
Here they sang about `tomorrow'
E
Am
And tomorrow never came.
C
C7
F
From the table in the corner
Cm7
F7
Bb
They could see a world reborn
Ab
Ab7
Eb
And they rose with voices ringing
Bb
A
I can hear them now!
Dm
Dm7
Bb
The very words that they had sung
Gm
G7
F
Became their last communion
C
C6
Am
On the lonely barricade at dawn.
Am
Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
C
That I live and you are gone.
Dm
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
E
C#m
There's a pain goes on and on.
C#m
Phantom faces at the window.
E
Phantom shadows on the floor.
F#m
Empty chairs at empty tables
Ab
C#m
Where my friends will meet no more.
C#m
Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
E
What your sacrifice was for
F#m
Empty chairs at empty tables
Ab
C#m
C#m7
C#m6
C#m
Where my friends will sing no more.