Paul Shapera - The Day They Come

      [Intro] F

F        C
Circles never stop themselves, 
Dm       C                
Nothing that you’ve ever held 
Bb          F                            
Were you promised or reneged 
Ab
And sometimes when you lose, you win. 

F        C
Circles never stop themselves, 
Dm       C                
Nothing that you’ve ever held 
Bb          F                            
Were you promised or reneged 
Ab
And sometimes when you lose, you win. 


Cm
Prisiclla, what’d you do? 

When You come for me, 
     Eb
You know they’ll also kill you too 
        Ab
You’re young, your song unsung, 
         Bb 
There’s still so much for you to do 

Ab
Prisiclla what’d you do? 
                
Now they’ll come and you must 
Cm
Run or else they’ll kill you too 
       Ab
Your life so I can die 
    Bb
Is wrong and you must know that’s true 

Ab
Ghosts of life, ghosts of lives 
Gm
I’ve watched fall and pass me by 
Fm 
Ghosts of all the selfish, vain 
Eb
All the blindness, all the pain 
Ab
All the fools and petty games 
Gm
All the shallow all the same 

N.C.
All these years you’re here, you suffer quietly, 
It’s barbarous to think that’s fair 
There’s no one who thinks of you 
The game is gonna end right here 
I’d help you to 
Die, if I could, but...
I’d help you to die if I could , love 
Some sacrifice anyway 
Some sacrifice it all away.

Cm                          Ab
And on the day we come it’s over,
Fm                                G
And you will have your fate laid out and spun, 
        Cm                                   Ab
It’s execution, and you may pray if you get comfort,
Fm
It’s on this day your duty’s done 
Cm                                   Ab
And on this day you’ve been caught guilty, 
Fm                         G
The sentence, citizen is death 
Cm                            Ab           
It will be carried out this instant 
Fm                             G
Say any prayers that you want said 


N.C.
One day you will learn 
And you will burn like my heart burns 
One day you will learn 
And you will burn like my heart burns 
Ghosts of all the selfish, vain 
All the blindness, all the pain 
All the fool and petty games 
All the shallow all the same

Some speak about love, in a sweet way 
Some sentiment of bliss and dream states 
Some speak about love in a kind way, 
Some sentiment of rapturous states.

Ab               Eb
Please, my angel, my angel 
Fm              G
Please my angel, my angel 
Ab
Please, my angel, my angel 
Fm         G    
Please my angel 


N.C.
And some sacrifice 
Some sacrifice 
Some sacrifice 
Some sacrifice

I am the arm of execution 
I am the trigger of your gun 
I am the binding and the order 
It’s on this day you’re duty’s done]

F                   Em
Please go back to berths of black 
     Dm               C
To silent shores from me once more 
          Bb                  F
Through veils and gates and seas of slate 
      Gm                     C
And blood red mores where I’ll see you once more 

F        C
Circles never stop themselves, 
Dm       C                
Nothing that you’ve ever held 
Bb          F                            
Were you promised or reneged 
Ab
And sometimes when you lose, you win.