Empty Chairs At Empty Tables Chords
Empty Chairs At Empty Tables by Les Miserables is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, C, Dm, E, C7, F, Cm7, F7, Bb, Ab, Ab7, Eb, A, Dm7, Gm, G7, C6, C#m, F#m, C#m7 and C#m6. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Am
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
C
There's a pain goes on and on.
Dm
Empty chairs at empty tables
E Am
Now my friends are dead and gone.
Am
Here they talked of revolution.
C
Here it was they lit the flame.
Dm
Here they sang about `tomorrow'
E Am
And tomorrow never came.
C C7 F
From the table in the corner
Cm7 F7 Bb
They could see a world reborn
Ab Ab7 Eb
And they rose with voices ringing
Bb A
I can hear them now!
Dm Dm7 Bb
The very words that they had sung
Gm G7 F
Became their last communion
C C6 Am
On the lonely barricade at dawn.
Am
Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
C
That I live and you are gone.
Dm
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
E C#m
There's a pain goes on and on.
C#m
Phantom faces at the window.
E
Phantom shadows on the floor.
F#m
Empty chairs at empty tables
Ab C#m
Where my friends will meet no more.
C#m
Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
E
What your sacrifice was for
F#m
Empty chairs at empty tables
Ab C#m C#m7 C#m6 C#m
Where my friends will sing no more.