Patti Smith – Beneath The Southern Cross (Guitar)

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Song information: the song's signature meter is 12/8. BPM is around 100. Listen to the song for the strumming pattern and accents (first chord of the bar is louder than the others). Mostly the pattern consists of downstrokes, but there are variations. Give attention to the rhythm. Play the first chord of the bar fully, the other chords only the 'higher sounding' ones. Chord voicings: D: x00232 Asus4: x00230 G: xx0033 D en G actually have other names (D/A, G/D), but I call them D and G for readability of the chord chart. Intro: Asus4 G x3 D Asus4 D Asus4 D Asus4 D Verse 1:

D
Oh

   Asus4
to be

     D
not anyone

Asus4
gone

     D
this maze of being

Asus4
skin

Verse 2:

D
oh

   Asus4
to cry

    D
not any cry

   Asus4
so mournful that

    D         Asus4
the dove just laughs

              D
the steadfast gasps

Verse3:

D
oh

   Asus4
to owe

    D
not anyone

Asus4
nothing

   D
to be

    Asus4
not here

    D
but here

forsaking equatorial bliss

    Asus4
who walked through

   D
the callow mist

Asus4
dressed in scraps

    D
who walked

    Asus4               D
the curve of the world

      Asus4
whose bone scraped

      D
whose flesh unfurled

    Asus4
who grieves not

D
anyone gone

   Asus4 D
to greet lame

    D
the inspired sky

amazed to stumble

      Asus4    D
where gods get lost

Asus4
beneath

    D
the southern cross

Outro: D Asus4 (x5) D G (x4) D D Asus4 D

Asus4 D
(chords played over Jeff Buckley's vocal)

Coda:

D
cross over boy

cross over Asus4 D Asus4 D Asus4 D G D