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Queen - The Prophet's Song

Author And Composer:Brian May
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Did you know:.Brian May had a dream about Noah's Ark with part of this song in it and that's where he though about this song
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Dm  
C/D 
Dm                 
Oh, oh, people of the earth
Dm                   
Listen to the warning
Dm       
C      
The seer he said
F          
C          
Bb      
Dm  
Beware the storm that gathers here
Dm                 
Bbmaj7
Listen to the wise man   

A5 
A5

Am                                
I dreamed I saw on a moonlit stair
Am            
C           
Spreading his hands on the
D    
Bm   
Am   
Multitude there
  
Am               
A man who cried for
  
D5             
A love gone stale
    
E5                 
Am      
D5  
And ice cold hearts of charity bare
  
Am                      
I watched as fear took the
Am            
Old men's gaze
Am           
C    
Hopes of the young
   
Gm       
Dm    
In troubled graves

   
Am     
Bbmaj7  
G/B       
C  
"I see no day," I heard him say
   
C#dim       
Dm      
Ebdim 
E  
Am 
So grey is the face of every mortal

Dm  
C/D 
Dm                 
Oh, oh, people of the earth
Dm                   
Listen to the warning
Dm          
C      
The prophet he said
    
F        
C   
For soon the cold
   
Bb         
Dm  
Of night will fall
Dm                   
F   
Summoned by your own hand

Dm  
C/D 
Dm                  
Oh, oh, children of the land
Dm                     
Quicken to the new life
Dm   
C      
Take my hand
F       
C        
Bb        
Dm   
Fly and find the new green bough
Dm                    
G9  
Return like the white dove

A5

Am                   
He told of death as a
Am             
Bone white haze
Am         
C           
Taking the lost and the
D  
Bm   
Am  
Unloved babe
Am                    
D5          
Late too late all the wretches run
      
E5                 
These kings of beasts now
Am             
D5  
Counting their days
     
Am                  
From mother's love is the
Am           
Son estranged
Am          
C       
Gm       
Dm  
Married his own his precious gain

    
Am         
Bbmaj7
The earth will shake 
   
G/B      
C    
In two will break
    
C#dim     
Dm    
And death all around
     
Ebdim   
E  
Am
Will be your dowry

Dm  
C/D 
Dm                 
Oh, oh, people of the earth
Dm                   
Listen to the warning
Dm       
C      
The seer he said
    
F         
C   
For those who hear
    
Bb      
Dm   
And mark my words
Dm                 
F#m 
Listen to the good plan

Dm  
C   
Bb  
F  
Bb            
Oh, oh, oh, oh and two by two
F           
My human zoo
F          
Dm                 
They'll be running for to come
        
Gm                    
Running for to come out of the
Dm     
C
Rain    
G                      
Em 
Bm
Oh flee for your life       
            
D/A             
Who heed me not let all your
G                
D
Treasure make you 
G                      
Em 
Bm
Oh fear for your life       
            
D/A             
Deceive you not the fires of
G                 
D
Hell will take you 
       
F           Csus2
Should death await you  

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Solo: 
E5 
E5 
C5 
A 
E5 
E5 
C5 
A
E5 
A 
E5 
A 
E5 
A 
G
Dm 
C/D 
Dm 
A
F 
Bb 
C 
Bb 
F 
G

    
Am       
Bbmaj7
God gave you grace 
   
G/B        
C    
To purge this place
    
C#dim     
Dm    
And peace all around
    [EEdim]   
E   
Am 
May be your fortune

Dm  
C/D 
Dm                  
Oh, oh, children of the land
Dm                      
Love is still the answer
Dm   
C      
Take my hand
    
F      
C       
Bb      
Dm  
The vision fades a voice I hear
Dm               
Bbmaj7
Listen to the madman!  

Solo:
Dm 
C/D 
Dm 
Dm 
C
Bridge:
Dm F Dm Dm x2

    
F       
C   
But still I fear
    
Bb       
Dm     
And still I dare not
Dm              
D   
Laugh at the madman!

Ending:
Dm Dm Dm F x2
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