[Intro]
   Am          Em        Am      Am         Am      Em      Am
E|-12--10----|---------|-------|----------|-------|-------|-------|
B|--------13-|-12------|-10----|----12-13-|-10----|-------|-------|
G|-----------|-----12--|-------|----------|-------|-12----|-9-----|
D|-----------|---------|-------|----------|-------|-------|-------|
A|-----------|---------|-------|----------|-------|-------|-------|
E|-----------|---------|-------|----------|-------|-------|-------|

[Verse]
Am           Em              Am
How long can this journey go on?
F                           G        Am
  Will I find the place I'm meant to go?
     F                                                Am
Will dreams fall down around us, just like the winter snow?
Am      Em                Am
Another year has come and gone
F                          G        Am
  Will my luck hold on for one year more?
  F                                                    G
I think of how far I have come, and what's been left behind

[Chorus]
Am             Em                 Am
  When will they  carry my body down?
Am             Em                  Am
  When will they  carry my body down?
          F                                                     Am
Will they take it from the river after I've jumped right in and drowned?
          F                                                  G
Will they find it on the battlefield, on the spot I stood my ground?

[Interlude]
Am     Em     Am 
Am     Em     Am 

[Verse]
Am        Em          Am
I walk alone, I walk apart.
Am       Em              Am
Someday, I'll wander no more.
F                               G                        Am
I search to find what I have lost and that which I've never known.
 Am              Em           Am
And when I find that I have gone
Am             Em        Am
across that river I know,
F                                                  G
I'll take only my memories, and things that might have been.

[Chorus]
Am             Em                 Am
  When will they  carry my body down?
Am             Em                  Am
  When will they  carry my body down?
 F                                                     Am
Will they cut it from a hangman's noose after the sentence has come down?
F                                                  G
Will anyone be there to morn a villain's passing to the ground?

[Interlude]
F        G  ??
F       Am  ?????

[Chorus]
Am             Em                 Am
  When will they  carry my body down?
Am             Em                 Am
  When will they  carry my body down?
Am             Em                 Am
  When will they  carry my body down?