The Man Comes Around

Accordi The Man Comes Around

And I heard, as it were, 

the noise of thunder: 

one of the four beasts saying: 

"Come and see" 

And I saw And behold, a white horse

DO

          DO

There's a man goin' 'round takin' names

And he decides who to free and who to blame

Everybody won't be treated all the same
                                     LAm   FA 
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down
         SOL        DO

When the man comes around
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    DO
The hairs on your arm will stand up

At the terror in each sip and in each sup

Will you partake of that last offered cup
                               LAm    FA

Or disappear into the potter's ground
         SOL        DO

When the man comes around?

DO
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers

One hundred million angels singin'
                               FA  DO/MI  SOL

Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum
SOL7
Voices callin', voices cryin'
                                 
Some are born and some are dyin'
                               DO
It's Alpha and Omega's Kingdom come
        FA                  DO

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
    
    DO
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
    FA                  DO

The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
                            
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
         
'Til Armageddon, no Shalam, no Shalom
                           
Then the father hen will call his chickens home
                                      
The wise men will bow down before the throne
                                          LAm     FA

And at his feet they'll cast their golden crowns
         SOL        DO

When the man comes around

   DO
Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still

Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still

Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still
                                 LAm   FA

Listen to the words long-written down,
         SOL        DO

When the man comes around

DO
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
                                 
One hundred million angels singin'
                               FA  DO/MI  SOL

Multitudes are marchin' to the big kettle drum
SOL7
Voices callin', voices cryin'

Some are born and some are dyin'
                               DO
It's Alpha and Omega's Kingdom come
        FA                  DO

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
    
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
    FA                  DO

The whirlwind is in the thorn tree

     DO
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
                                    LAm    FA

In measured hundredweight and penny pound
         SOL        DO

When the man comes around

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, 

and I looked and behold: a pale horse

And his name, that sat on him, was Death 

And Hell followed with him

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