Feast of Fools  - Bruce Cockburn
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Transcribed by John Kean.

INTRO:
Em7Em7 Piano Chord 
      Dadd4/EDadd4/E Piano Chord 
           D/ED/E Piano Chord 
      A/EA/E Piano Chord 

4/4 ,  .  ,  .  ,  .  ,  .     ,  .  ,  .  ,  .  ,  . (x4)
||---------------------------|---------------------------||
||---------8--7--------7-----|--------3--2--------2------||
||*--------7--7--------7-----|--------2--2--------2-----*||
||*--------9--7--------7-----|--------4--2--------2-----*||
||-----10----------10----10--|-----5-----------4-----5---||
||---0-----------------------|--0------------------------||

VERSE 1:
AmAm Piano Chord 
                    EmEm Piano Chord 
          D/F#D/F# Piano Chord 
         Em11Em11 Piano Chord 

At the feast of fools humour can sometimes be cruel
AmAm Piano Chord 
                           EmEm Piano Chord 
           D/F#D/F# Piano Chord 
       Em11Em11 Piano Chord 

But under certain conditions you have to forget the rules
AmAm Piano Chord 
                    EmEm Piano Chord 
     D/F#D/F# Piano Chord 
      Em11Em11 Piano Chord 

At the feast of fools everybody has a voice
AmAm Piano Chord 
                        EmEm Piano Chord 
         D/F#D/F# Piano Chord 
      Em11Em11 Piano Chord 

Nobody goes to the bottom except by their own choice

CHORUS 1:
BmBm Piano Chord 

It's time for the silent criers
Em7Em7 Piano Chord 
  Dadd4/EDadd4/E Piano Chord 
  D/ED/E Piano Chord 
  A/EA/E Piano Chord 

to be held in love
BmBm Piano Chord 

It's time for the ones who dig graves for them
Em7Em7 Piano Chord 
  Dadd4/EDadd4/E Piano Chord 
  D/ED/E Piano Chord 
  A/EA/E Piano Chord 

to get that final shove
BmBm Piano Chord 

It's time for the horizons of the universe to be glimpsed
Em7Em7 Piano Chord 
            Dadd4/EDadd4/E Piano Chord 
  D/ED/E Piano Chord 
  A/EA/E Piano Chord 

even by the faceless kings of corporations
BmBm Piano Chord 

It's time for chaos to win and walk off with the prize
Em7Em7 Piano Chord 
       Dadd4/EDadd4/E Piano Chord 
  D/ED/E Piano Chord 
  A/EA/E Piano Chord 

which turns out to be nothing
Em7Em7 Piano Chord 
  Dadd4/EDadd4/E Piano Chord 
  D/ED/E Piano Chord 
  A/EA/E Piano Chord 

I fooled you, I fooled you...
Em7Em7 Piano Chord 
  Dadd4/EDadd4/E Piano Chord 
  D/ED/E Piano Chord 
  A/EA/E Piano Chord 
    Em7Em7 Piano Chord 
  Dadd4/EDadd4/E Piano Chord 
  D/ED/E Piano Chord 
  A/EA/E Piano Chord 


VERSE 2:
At the feast of fools outlaws can all come home
You can wear any disguise you want but you'll be naked past the bone
At the feast of fools people's hands weave light
There's a diamond wind flowering in the darkest night

CHORUS 2:
It's time for the silent criers
to be held in love
It's time for the ones who dig graves for them
to get that final shove
It's time for the horizons of the universe to be glimpsed
even by the faceless kings of corporations
It's time for chaos to win and walk off with the prize
which turns out to be a big fat nothing

SOLO: (chords as for verses, x2)

CHORUS 3: (finish with an Em11 chord)
It's time for the singers of songs without hope
to take a hard look and start from scratch again
It's time for these headlights racing against inescapable dark
to be just forgotten
It's time for Harlequin to leap out of the future
into the midst of a world of dancers
It's time for us all to stand hushed in the cathedral of silence
waiting at the river's end
Waiting at the river's end

CHORD VOICINGS:
Em7       0(10)978x
Dadd4/E   0(10)777x
D/E       05423x
A/E       04222x
Am        x02210
EmEm Piano Chord 
        022000
D/F#      20023x
Em11      02403x
BmBm Piano Chord 
        799777

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John Kean
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