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Redemption Day

Sheryl Crow

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 01:02:04 +0000
From: Ted Saxlid 
Subject: c/crow_sheryl/redemption_day.crd

REDEMPTION DAY by SHERYL CROW from her 2nd album
Chords by: Ted Saxlid.I'm not 100% sure on all the chords but
it sounds pretty  good to me.
Capo on 1st fret (chords relative to the capo)

The tab for the Am chord throughout the song goes something like this:
E
B
G        2    0    0    2                    2                2    0
0    2                    0
D                                  0 h
2                                                   0 h 2
A  0                                                       0
E

Riff 1:
E
B
G
D
A   0    2    3    5    3    0
E

Verse 1:
Am
I've wept for those who suffer long

But how I weep for those who've gone

Into rooms of grief and questioned wrong
                    Dsus4
But keep on killing

Verse 2:
Am
It's in the soul to feel such things

But weak to watch without speaking

Oh what mercy sadness brings
                 Dsus4         Am
If God be willing        (Riff 1)

Chorus:
Am/B       C
There is a train that's heading straight
C/B              Am        Am/B     C
To heaven's gate, to heaven's gate
C/B            C
And on the way, child and man
C/B              Am    Am/B       D
And woman wait, watch and wait
                         Am
For redemption day

Verse 3:
Am
The fire rages in the streets

And swallows everything it meets

It's just an image often seen
              Dsus4
On television

Verse 4:
Am
Come leaders, come you men of great

Let us hear you pontificate

Your many virtues laid to waste
                       Dsus4        Riff 1
And we aren't listening

Verse 5: (Different)
Am                Dsus4            C      Am
What do you have for us today
Am              Dsus4                 C        Am
Throw us a bone but saw the plate
Am              Dsus4          C        Am
Oh why we waited til so late
Am                                    Dsus4
Was there no oil to excavate

No riches in trade for the fate

Of every person who died in hate
                                    C         Am
Throw us a bone, you men of great

Chorus:
Am/B       C
There is a train that's heading straight
C/B              Am   Am/B         C
To heaven's gate, to heaven's gate
C/B            C
And on the way, child and man
C/B              Am    C              Dsus4
And woman wait, watch and wait
                         Am        Riff 1
For redemption day

Verse 6:
Am            C                   Dsus4      Am
It's buried in the countryside
Am            C                     Dsus4
Exploding in the shells of night
Am
It's everywhere a baby cries
Dsus4      Am          Dsus4      Am
Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom

Ends on Am