Elton John – Sisters Of The Cross (Guitar)

Am9
The old gates are always locked

        D7
By the daughter of the keys

Am9
Sad eyes are fixed on the world

D7
From the balcony

          C              D/B
While the six o'clock procession

            D7/A              Esus4
Take their prayer books to the hall

     Am               D
It's sad to see them shed a tear

  C                Am7
Inside the convent walls

Am9
Red mountains around them

D7
Keep out those who'd come

Am9
But only birds and wild deer

D7
Share the lives of nuns

     C             D/B
For ladies who in kindness

          D7/A              Esus4
Burn the knowledge they have found

       Am              D
Their knowledge lies inside a hole

 C              Am
Buried in the ground

Am7                    D9
For the Sisters of the Cross

Am7                    D9
Seek the shadows that they have lost

G                   C
In the walls where their lives

G                C
Are protected by God

A7                 D9
But the feeling of love

A7                   D9
Is somehwere in your bones

C
Your body is wasted

         Esus4
When it should have been owned

Am9
The Mother of the mission bells

D7
Has lived here all her life

Am9
She never felt the hands of man

D7
Touch her in the night

           C           D/B
And the canopies that cover her

    D7/A        Esus4
So cold and so afraid

 Am             D
Thinking holy mothers die

       C               D
Like spinsters in the grave

Am9
To be single in the chapel

       D7
Praying knelt down on your knees

Am9
Where the corridors are echoing

D7
Their proud solemnity

         C            D/B
And the candle light against the glass

       D7/A          Esus4
Plays shadow chasing tricks

        Am                      D
As the young girls fall, their eyes in tears

   C            Am
Beside the crucifix