Misc Originals – Alex Dillon - Delusion (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Chords

The song is kinda in 7/4 except for the odd bar here or there You could do drop D or not @@ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
D                      G           D
Where have you been my bright-eyed son

   D                                  A
Oh where have you been my pious young one?

     G/D                      A/D           D
I’ve emerged from a rock on a great fertile mountain

     G/D                        A/D           D
I’ve ransacked in hell and I’ve worked in the stables

     G/D                  A/D        D
I’ve eaten my fill of the peaches in heaven

     G/D                        A/D       D
I’ve crossed a great sea on the back of a turtle

     G/D                     A/D            D
I’ve saved and I’ve ruined a land that’s on fire

                D                 A
And it’s been a long, it’s been a long,

            D                 G
it’s been a long, it’s been a long-

D      A       D
journey to the west (7 beats)
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  D                    G           D
Oh what did you see my bright-eyed son

   D                               A
Oh what did you see my pious young one

  G/D                      A/D            D
I saw a great feast for my friends and my family

      G/D                          A/D      D
Saw a shining bright palace it was full of elixirs

      G/D                             A/D          D
Saw a fiend dressed in yellow paint a new precious image

      G/D                      A/D           D
Saw a greenish black body with hair red like scarlet.

        G/D                  A/D          D
Saw the empty and pure being tortured for water

        G/D                   A/D        D
Saw the barbarous ways of the wicked and greedy

        G/D                           A/D        D
Saw the scrolls without words we were too dim to read them

                D                 A
And it’s been a long, it’s been a long,

            D                 G
it’s been a long, it’s been a long-

D      A       D
journey to the west (7 beats)
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    D                    G           D
And what did you hear my bright-eyed son

       D                                A
Oh And what did you hear my pious young one

  G/D                    A/D       D
I heard a great whooping upon my arrival

         G/D                    A/D         D
Heard my thunderous army it was braying and laughing

         G/D                 A/D          D
Heard my master demand of me peace and forgiveness

          G/D                       A/D        D
Heard the snorts and the rants of a swine in a castle

          G/D                    A/D         D
Heard the woodcutter laugh as he gave us fair warning

          G/D               A/D        D
Heard the sigh of a woman reluctant to help us

          G/D                      A/D         D
Heard the wailing of boys numbered more than a thousand

        G/D                      A/D              D
Heard a merciful mouth speak the truth with great mercy

     D                 A
And it’s been a long, it’s been a long,

            D                 G
it’s been a long, it’s been a long-

D      A       D
journey to the west (7 beats)
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   D                    G           D
Oh what did you meet my bright-eyed son

       D                               A
Oh and who did you meet my pious young one

      G/D                        A/D          D
I met many wise men who who were full of dumb riddles

 G/D                     A/D           D
I met a wet horse at the bottom of the ocean

  G/D                   A/D         D
I met a large hand that did grip me tightly

  G/D                    A/D         D
I met a young man he was bald and annoying

  G/D                       A/D           D
I met an old friend, we did not smooth it over.

  G/D                       A/D          D
I met the North Star he had lost his pet deer

                D                 A
And it’s been a long, it’s been a long,

            D                 G
it’s been a long, it’s been a long-

D      A       D
journey to the west (7 beats)
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    D                     G           D
And what’ll you do now my bright-eyed son

    D                                 A
And what’ll you do now my pious young one

    G/D                       A/D              D
I’m going back west where the wind’s light and fragrant

          G/D                    A/D            D
I’ll walk back through a land so mendacious and cruel

          G/D                        A/D         D
Where for fourteen short years I was pounded and pestled

          G/D                       A/D        D
Where the rulers are stupid with no hope of deliverance

        G/D                        A/D      D
Where a pilgrim is told that he’ll never be welcome

          G/D                     A/D       D
Where the spirits that rule do it solely with process

          G/D                    A/D      D
Where the demons that work do it only for profit

           G/D                         A/D          D
Where I’ve longed for a freedom that I found in the sunlight

         G/D                      A/D            D
And I’ll know it and chant it and breathe it and be it

       G/D                            A/D           D
And reflect from the mountain so that all souls can see it

          G/D                          A/D        D
Then I’ll stand with the others in the glimmering pure land

         G/D                       A/D           D
But I’ll know that too few will surmount a great struggle

             D                 A
And it’s been a long, it’s been a long,

            D                 G
it’s been a long, it’s been a long-

D      A       D
journey to the west (7 beats)
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