Beggars (acoustic)

	  		
Intro: Em, C 

         Em                          C 
All you great men of power, you who boast of your feats  
      Em                    C 
Politicians and entrepreneurs 
        Em                           C 
Can you safeguard your breath in the night while you sleep 
          Em                        C 
Keep your heart beating steady and sure 
        D                         Am6 
As you lie in your bed, does the thought haunt your head 
            Em              A7 
That you’re really, rather small 
            C                         B11                Em 
If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all. 

       (Em)                       C 
All you champions of science and rulers of men, 
        Em                        C 
Can you summon the sun from its sleep 
         Em                         C 
Does the earth seek your counsel on how fast to spin 
         Em                          C 
Can you shut up the gates of the deep 
          D                             Am6 
Don’t you know that all things hang, as if by a string, 
         Em                   A7 
O’er the darkness,  poised to fall? 
           C                          B11                Em 
If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all. 

        Em                          C 
All you big shots that swagger and stride with conceit, 
         Em                               C 
Did you devise how your frame would be formed 
             Em                     C 
If you’d be raised in a palace, or live out in the streets, 
         Em                                   C 
Did you choose the place or the hour you’d be born 
         D                         Am6 
Tell me what can you claim? Not a thing,  not your name 
         Em         A7             C     
Tell me if you can recall just one thing, 
                           B11 
That’s not a gift in this life 

        Am                  
Can you hear what’s been said 
       B11                        Em           A7 
Can you see now that everything’s grace after all 
            C                       B11                       Em 
If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all.