A Passion Play Chords
by Jethro Tull
A Passion Play by Jethro Tull is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, D, C, G, Bm, F#m, F, Bb, B, A and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Em
Hail! Son of kings /
D
make the ever-dying sign /
C D Em G Bm F#m Bm
cross your fingers in the sky for those about to BE.
F Bb C D
There am I waiting along the sand.
C F G D G D Em
Cast your sweet spell upon the land and sea.
(same)
Magus Perde, take your hand from off the chain.
Loose a wish to still / the rain / the storm about to BE.
Here am I (voyager into life).
Tough are the soles that tread the knife's edge.
Em D G D Em C F B
Break the circle / stretch the line / call upon the devil.
Em D G D A G D
Bring the gods / the gods' own fire.In the conflict revel.
B D B A B D B A
The passengers / upon the ferry crossing / waiting to be born /
B D B A B D B A
renew the pledge of life's long song / rise to the reveille horn.
E G E D E G E D
Animals / queueing at the gate that stands upon the shore /
E G E D E G E A G
breathe the ever-burning fire that guards the ever-door.
(SAME)
Man / son of man / buy the flame of ever-life (yours to breathe and
breath the pain of living): living BE!
Here am I!
Roll the stone away from the dark into ever-day.