We Are Alive

C There's a cross up yonder on Calvary Hill G There's a slip of blood on a silver knife F C There's a graveyard kid down below G Where at night the dead come to life F C Well above the stars they crackle and fire G A dead man's moon throws seven rings F C We'd put our ears to the cold grave stones G This is the song they'd sing --- F C We are alive G And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark F C Our spirits rise F To carry the fire and light the spark C G To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart --- C F C C F G F C C G --- C F C A voice cried I was killed in Maryland in 1877 G When the railroad workers made their stand F C I was killed in 1963 G One Sunday morning in Birmingham C F C I died last year crossing the southern desert G My children left behind in San Pablo F C Well they've left our bodies here to rot G Oh please let them know --- F C We are alive G And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark F C Our spirits rise F To carry the fire and light the spark C G To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart --- C F C C F G F C C G 2x --- F Let your mind rest easy G C Sleep well my friend F G It's only our bodies that betray us in the end C F C Well I awoke last night in the dark and dreamy deep F G From my head to my feet my body'd gone stone cold F C There were worms crawling all around me G My fingers scratchin' at an earth black and six foot low --- F C Alone in the blackness of my grave G Alone I'd been left to die F C Then I heard voices calling all ‘round me The earth rose above me G My eyes filled with sky --- F C We are alive G And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark F C Our spirits rise F To carry the fire and light the spark C G F C To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart F C G F C F C To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart F C We are alive --- C F C C F G F C C G