(Don't strum the chords, play around them, mainly plucking the top string and bottom two strings to get the
kind of pattern you hear in the song)
[Verse 1]
D G A
As I beside some winter's fire
Em D G
Sat writing words strange and steady
D G A
Amongst my own internal choir
Em D G
Came voices to my mind unready
F#m G A Bm
Of those who died on either side
Em D G A
While friends cry o'er their bones unburied
D G A
Go sighing through the north east winds
Em D G
These cold days of February
[Verse 2]
D G A
Some clerk with papers and his pen
Em D G
Some banker with his poison pity
D G A
Some captain careless of his men
Em D G
These fan the flames that maim the cities
F#m G A Bm
And bigots in the name of Christ
Em D G A
By thorny paths obscure and muddy
D G A
Can fear to roam through years of cold
Em D G
Bewailing how their hands are bloody
[Verse 3]
D G A
Whether they were from here or there
Em D G
Their race and place I would not be heeding
D G A
The men who caused such bitterness
Em D G
If hearts they have let their hearts be bleeding
F#m G A Bm
Who neither for age nor the young child
Em D G A
Would turn the shot of the arms they carried
D G A
Go bear the guilt a weary ways
Em D G
For the cold days of February