The Letters
King CrimsonVersion1
90
Chords in this song
Strum
D-DU-UDU
gently
E|----4-4-4-|
B|---1-2-1--|
G|----------|
D|--3-------|
A|-3--------|
E|----------|
With quill and silver knife
She carved a poison pen
Wrote to her lover's wife:
"Your husband's seed has fed my flesh".
As if a leper's face
That tainted letter graced
The wife with choke-stone throat
Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes.
variations on Fm
Impaled on nails of ice
And raked with emerald fire
The wife with soul of snow
With steady hands begins to write:
"I'm still, I need no life
To serve on boys and men
What's mine was yours is dead
I take my leave of mortal flesh"
Lublin, Poland
18.08.09
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Readable chord sheet for The Letters by King Crimson
gently [Fm] E|----4-4-4-| B|---1-2-1--| G|----------| D|--3-------| A|-3--------| E|----------| [Fm]With quill and silver knife She carved a poison [Bbm]pen Wrote to her lover's w[Fm]ife: [C]"Your husband's seed has fed my[Fm] flesh". As if a leper's face That tainted letter graced The wife with choke-stone throat Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes. [Fm] [Abm] [Bbm] [Fm] [Fm] [Abm] [Bbm] variations on Fm Impaled on nails of ice And raked with emerald fire The wife with soul of snow With steady hands begins to write: "I'm still, I need no life To serve on boys and men What's mine was yours is dead I take my leave of mortal flesh" Lublin, Poland 18.08.09