Beneath The Southern Cross

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 the chord chart.                                                    Intro: Asus4 G x3 D Asus4 Asus4 Asus4 Verse 1: Oh    Asus4 to be not anyone Asus4 gone this maze of being Asus4 skin Verse 2: oh    Asus4 to cry not any cry    Asus4 so mournful that     D         Asus4 the dove just laughs the steadfast gasps Verse3: oh    Asus4 to owe not anyone Asus4 nothing to be     Asus4 not here but here forsaking equatorial bliss     Asus4 who walked through the callow mist Asus4 dressed in scraps who walked     Asus4               D the curve of the world       Asus4 whose bone scraped whose flesh unfurled     Asus4 who grieves not anyone gone    Asus4 D to greet lame the inspired sky amazed to stumble       Asus4    D where gods get lost Asus4 beneath the southern cross Outro: D Asus4 (x5) Asus4 D             (chords played over Jeff Buckley’s vocal) Coda: cross over boy cross over Asus4 Asus4 Asus4