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Feast Of Fools

Bruce Cockburn
Version1
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
 
A/E
4/4 , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . (x4)
||---------------------------|---------------------------||
||---------8--7--------7-----|--------3--2--------2------||
||*--------7--7--------7-----|--------2--2--------2-----*||
||*--------9--7--------7-----|--------4--2--------2-----*||
||-----10----------10----10--|-----5-----------4-----5---||
||---0-----------------------|--0------------------------||
 
  At  the feast of  fools humour can sometimes be cruel
 
  But  under certain  conditions you have to forget the rules
 
  At  the feast  of fools everybody has a voice
 
  Nobody  goes  to the bottom except by their own choice
  It's  time for the silent criers
 
   to  be held  in love
  It's  time for the ones who dig graves for them
 
   to  get that  final shove
  It's  time for the horizons of the universe to be glimpsed
 
   even  by the  faceless kings of corporations
  It's  time for chaos to win and walk off with the prize
 
   which  turns  out to be nothing
 
  I  fooled  you,  I fooled you...
 
 
 
 
 
 
  At the feast of fools outlaws can all come home
  You can wear any disguise you want but you'll be naked past the bone
  At the feast of fools people's hands weave light
  There's a diamond wind flowering in the darkest night
  It's time for the silent criers
  to be held in love
  It's time for the ones who dig graves for them
  to get that final shove
  It's time for the horizons of the universe to be glimpsed
  even by the faceless kings of corporations
  It's time for chaos to win and walk off with the prize
  which turns out to be a big fat nothing
 (chords as for verses, x2)
 (finish with an Em11 chord)
  It's time for the singers of songs without hope
  to take a hard look and start from scratch again
  It's time for these headlights racing against inescapable dark
  to be just forgotten
  It's time for Harlequin to leap out of the future
  into the midst of a world of dancers
  It's time for us all to stand hushed in the cathedral of silence
  waiting at the river's end
  Waiting at the river's end
 CHORD VOICINGS:
   0(10)978x
   0(10)777x

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Readable chord sheet for Feast Of Fools by Bruce Cockburn

[Em7]      [Dadd4]
 [E]            [D/E]       [A/E]
 4/4 ,  .  ,  .  ,  .  ,  .     ,  .  ,  .  ,  .  ,  . (x4)
||---------------------------|---------------------------||
||---------8--7--------7-----|--------3--2--------2------||
||*--------7--7--------7-----|--------2--2--------2-----*||
||*--------9--7--------7-----|--------4--2--------2-----*||
||-----10----------10----10--|-----5-----------4-----5---||
||---0-----------------------|--0------------------------||

 [Am]                     [Em]
 [D/F#]At the feast [Em11]of fools humour can sometimes be cruel

 [Am]                            [Em]
 [D/F#]But under c[Em11]ertain conditions you have to forget the rules

 [Am]                     [Em]
 [D/F#]At the fea[Em11]st of fools everybody has a voice

 [Am]                         [Em]
 [D/F#]Nobody goe[Em11]s to the bottom except by their own choice

 [Bm]It's time for the silent criers

 [Em7]  [Dadd4]
 [E]  to[D/E] be he[A/E]ld in love

 [Bm]It's time for the ones who dig graves for them

 [Em7]  [Dadd4]
 [E]  to[D/E] get t[A/E]hat final shove

 [Bm]It's time for the horizons of the universe to be glimpsed

 [Em7]            [Dadd4]
 [E]  ev[D/E]en by [A/E]the faceless kings of corporations

 [Bm]It's time for chaos to win and walk off with the prize

 [Em7]       [Dadd4]
 [E]  wh[D/E]ich tu[A/E]rns out to be nothing

 [Em7]  [Dadd4]
 [E]I fo[D/E]oled y[A/E]ou, I fooled you...

 [Em7]  [Dadd4]
 [E]   [D/E]   [A/E]
 [Em7]  [Dadd4]
 [E]   [D/E]
 [A]
 [E]

 At the feast of fools outlaws can all come home
 You can wear any disguise you want but you'll be naked past the bone
 At the feast of fools people's hands weave light
 There's a diamond wind flowering in the darkest night

 It's time for the silent criers
   to be held in love
 It's time for the ones who dig graves for them
   to get that final shove
 It's time for the horizons of the universe to be glimpsed
   even by the faceless kings of corporations
 It's time for chaos to win and walk off with the prize
   which turns out to be a big fat nothing

(chords as for verses, x2)

(finish with an Em11 chord)
 It's time for the singers of songs without hope
   to take a hard look and start from scratch again
 It's time for these headlights racing against inescapable dark
   to be just forgotten
 It's time for Harlequin to leap out of the future
   into the midst of a world of dancers
 It's time for us all to stand hushed in the cathedral of silence
   waiting at the river's end
 Waiting at the river's end

CHORD VOICINGS:

 [Em7]       0(10)978x
[Dadd4]
 [E]   0(10)777x

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