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Go Gracefully

by M Stevens & The Ghasts

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If you want to play this song, the chords are pretty easy:
Verse: E B A C#m
Chorus: B A C#m B

Or if you want to make it even easier just do what I do and put a capo on the fourth fret, in which case the chords become:
Verse: C G F Am
Chorus: G F Am G

Go forth and strum.

lyrics

I saw you walking in the village in the night
Your face was lit up like a tooth in UV light
And while your ancestors made patterns in the corn
You stood against the wind, a slanted dead hawthorn

Chorus
Go gracefully in memories of ways
Go gracefully but don’t avert your gaze
Go gracefully on Corpus Christi days
Go gracefully like a rodent in a maze

You held aloft a picture of your mother then
And whispered there to me “I don’t remember when…”
And by the graveyard where we passed at ten o’clock
You saw old Jesus and your hearts they nearly stopped

Chorus

And only ghosts of kids in blue communion suits
Fill up the dusty empty houses of the truth
And Nicodemus at his station ‘neath the cross
Is mostly concrete now, and doesn’t give a toss

Chorus x2

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released April 5, 2023
Written by Michael Stevens, performed by The Ghasts, recorded by Steve Shannon. Guest vocalist: Anna Stevens.

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M Stevens & The Ghasts Dublin, Ireland

You may know M Stevens as Mike, that speccy guy from a string of Irish alt folk & indie pop bands like Settler, Groom, Lie Ins and Skelocrats. Or as co-founder of celebrated indie collective Popical Island.

M's band The Ghasts are Mark Jordan, Hugh McCabe, Ciaran Canavan, Donagh O'Brien and sometimes Norah and Anna Stevens and Sadhbh McCabe. ... more

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