Am9 
      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                    Am9 
Now my friends are dead and gone 
                               Am9 
Here they talked of revolution 
                         C 
Here it was they lit the flame 
                       Dm 
Here they sang about tomorrow 
      E            Am9    Am 
And tomorrow never came 
         C7           F 
From the table in the corner 
           Cm7     F9    Bb 
they could see a world reborn 
         Bm7b5     G7     C 
And they rose with voices ringing 
      Bb        A 
I can hear them now 
         Dm         Dm/C     Bb 
The very words that they had sung 
Bb/A       Gm                 G9 
         Became their last communion 
F                        Am     Am9 
     On the lonely barricade at dawn 
 
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 
 
Phantom faces at the window 
                       E 
Phantom shadows on the floor 
                      F#m 
Empty chairs at empty tables 
         G#                   C#m 
Where my friends will meet no more 
 
Oh, my friends, my friends don't ask me 
                        E 
What your sacrifice was for 
                      F#m 
Empty chairs at empty tables 
         G#                   C#m 
where my friends will sing no more 
C#m7     C#m6     C#m9