Beneath the Southern Cross Patti Smith
Song information: the song's signature meter is 12/8. BPM is around 100. Listen to the
song for the strumming pattern and accents (first chord of the bar is louder than the
others). Mostly the pattern consists of downstrokes, but there are variations. Give
attention to the rhythm.
Play the first chord of the bar fully, the other chords only the 'higher sounding' ones.
Chord voicings:
D: x00232
Asus4: x00230
G: xx0033
D en G actually have other names (D/A, G/D), but I call them D and G for readability of
the chord chart.
Intro:
Asus4 G x3
[D] [Asus4]
[D] [Asus4] [D] [Asus4] [D]
Verse 1:
[D]Oh
to [Asus4]be
not a[D]nyone
[Asus4]gone
this [D]maze of being
[Asus4]skin
Verse 2:
[D]oh
to [Asus4]cry
not [D]any cry
so [Asus4]mournful that
the [D]dove just [Asus4]laughs
the steadfast [D]gasps
Verse3:
[D]oh
to [Asus4]owe
not [D]anyone
[Asus4]nothing
to [D]be
not [Asus4]here
but [D]here
forsaking
equatorial bliss
who [Asus4]walked through
the[D] callow mist
[Asus4]dressed in scraps
who [D]walked
the [Asus4]curve of the world[D]
whose [Asus4]bone scraped
whose [D]flesh unfurled
who [Asus4]grieves not
[D]anyone gone
to [Asus4]greet [D]lame
the [D]inspired sky
amazed to stumble
where [Asus4]gods get [D]lost
[Asus4]beneath
the [D]southern cross
Outro:
D Asus4 (x5)
D G (x4) D D Asus4 D
[Asus4](chord[D]s played over Jeff Buckley's vocal)
Coda:
[D]cross over boy
cross over
[Asus4] [D] [Asus4] [D] [Asus4] [D] [G] [D]
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