The High Kings – Grace chords

[Intro]
G C G C  G C  G

[Verse]
N.C.  G                            C              DAs we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham gaol
  C                 G              DI think about these past few weeks, will they say we've failed?
         G                                    C              DFrom our schooldays they have told us we must yearn for liberty
    C             G              Em      D                  GYet all I want in this dark place, is to have you here with me

[Chorus]
    D                                   C               GOh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger
        C              G/D      G/B    DThey'll take me out at dawn and I will die
                                      C              GWith all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger
      C                G           Em     D               G   C G C  G C  GThere won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye

[Verse]
N.C.  G                                   C         DNow I know it's hard for you, my love, to ever understand
    C               G               DThe love I bare for these brave men, the love for my dear land
         G                                   C        DBut when Padraic called me to his side, down in the GPO
  C               G           Em   D            GI had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go

[Chorus]
    D                                   C               GOh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger
        C              G/D      G/B    DThey'll take me out at dawn and I will die
                                      C              GWith all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger
      C                G           Em     D               G   C G C  G C  GThere won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye

[Verse]
                                C                 DNow as the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too
   C                G          DOn this May morn as I walk out, my thoughts will be of you
         G                                  C             DAnd I'll write some words upon the wall, so everyone will know
  C                  G         Em     D              GI loved so much that I could see, his blood upon the rose

[Chorus]
    D                                   C               GOh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger
        C              G/D      G/B    DThey'll take me out at dawn and I will die
                                      C              GWith all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger
      C                G           Em     D               GThere won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye
      C                G           Em     D               G  There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye

[Outro]
C G C  G C  G