We Are Alive Chords by Bruce Springsteen

[Start]

[Intro]
C7 C C G
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[Verse]
                 C                           
There is a cross up yonder up on Calvary Hill
                              G           
There is a slip of blood on a silver knife
           F             C         
There is a graveyard kid down below
                        G      
Where at night did come to life
    F                    C              
And above the stars they crackle in fire
                               G    
A dead man's moon throws seven rings
F                           C                
Well we put our ears to the cold grave stones
                 G          
This is the song they'd sing
       F     C
We are alive ■
                                        G       
And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark
            C                                    F    
Our spirits rise to carry the fire and light the spark
   C                          G   C             
To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart


[Inst]
G F C G
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[Verse]
                        C                              F            C
A voice cried out I was killed in Maryland in eighteen seventyseven ■
                                     G    
When the railroad workers made their stand
     F                        C                                G         
Well I was killed in nineteen sixtythree one Sunday morning in Birmingham
F                       C                           
■ Well I died last year crossing the southern desert
                               G    
My children left behind in San Pablo
          F               C          
Well they left our bodies here to rot
                   G   
Oh please let them know
       F     C
We are alive ■
                                G          
Oh and though we lie alone here in the dark
               F    C                               F    
Our souls will rise to carry the fire and light the spark
         C                        G        C    
To fight shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart


[Solo]
G F C G C G
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F C G
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[Chorus]
         Am        G                  C     
Let your mind rest easy sleep well my friend
              F                            G  
It's only our bodies that betray us in the end


[Verse]
  C                                         
I awoke last night in a dark and dreamy deep
                                           G   
From my head to my feet my body gone stone cold
           F              C            
There were worms crawling all around me
                                                  G  
Fingers scratching at an earth black and six foot low
    F                      C          
And alone in the blackness of my grave
                       G  
Alone I'd been left to die
       F     C                           
Then I heard voices calling all around me
                                            G  
The earth rose above me my eyes filled with sky


[Chorus]
       F     C
We are alive ■
                                            G   
And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark
              F       C   
Our souls and spirits rise
                                F    
To carry the fire and light the spark
   C                          G            Gsus4 C
To fight shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart ■
   F              C           G         F  C     F
To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart ■
C        F    
■ We are alive


[Solo]
C G F C G C G F
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C G C G F C
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G C G
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[Outro]