Standard Tuning
Capo 2

[Chords]
     
e|-3---3---3--
B|-3---3---3--
G|-0---0---0--
D|-0---2---2--
A|-2---3---2--
E|-3---x---0--

   
-3-|
-3-|
-2-|
-0-|
-x-|
-x-|

[Intro]
I got some req
this over and 
         
e|------------
B|------------
G|----0---0---
D|------------
A|--3---3---3-
E|------------

uests for the 
over.. Here it
         
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0---0----2--2-
-------0--0--0
--3-----------
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plucking patte
 is:
             
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-2--2----0--0-
--0-----------
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-------3--3--3

rn, it's reall
         
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-0--0-----0--0
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--3-----0--0--

y easy and you just repeat 
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 –  -  –     (x2)

[Verse]
(     
I used to rule

    
 the world 
             
Seas would ris

              
e when I gave 

    
the word 
              
Now in the mor

         
ning I sleep a

 
lone 
             
Sweep the stre

              
ets I used to 


own

[Instrumental] (x2)
 –  -  – 

[Verse]
(     
I used to roll

     
 the dice 
             
Feel the fear 

              
in my enemy's 


eyes 
              
Listen as the 

        
crowd would si


ng: 
             
"Now the old k

              
ing is dead! L


ong live the k

ing!"
(        
One minute I h

    
eld the key 
             
Next the walls

              
 were closed o

  
n me 
              
And I discover

            
ed that my cas

    
tles stand 
             
Upon pillars o

            
f salt and pil


lars of sand 

[Verse]
         
I hear Jerusal

   
em bells are r

inging 
             
Roman Cavalry 


choirs are sin

ging 
         
Be my mirror, 

   
my sword, and 

shield 
             
My missionarie

       
s in a foreign

 field 
         
For some reaso

    
n I can't expl

ain 
             
Once you go th

           
ere was never,

          
 never an hone

  
st word
             
That was when 

            
I ruled the wo


rld 

[Instrumental] (x2)
 –  -  – 

[Verse]
(         
It was the wic

         
ked and wild w

 
ind 
              
Blew down the 

             
doors to let m

  
e in. 
              
Shattered wind

            
ows and the so

    
und of drums 
             
People couldn'

              
t believe what


 I'd become
(    
Revolutionarie

  
s wait 
             
For my head on

          
 a silver plat

e 
              
Just a puppet 

       
on a lonely st


ring
             
Oh who would e

              
ver want to be

 
 king? 
         
I hear Jerusal

   
em bells are r

inging 
             
Roman Cavalry 


choirs are sin

ging 
         
Be my mirror, 

   
my sword, and 

shield 
             
My missionarie

       
s in a foreign

 field 
         
For some reaso

    
n I can't expl

ain 
             
I know Saint P

           
eter will call

            
 my name ,
         
never an hones

 
t word
              
But that was w

             
hen I ruled th

   
e world  

[Instrumental]
 –  (x3)
 (x2)
  - 
(Ohhhhh Ohhh O

 -  –     (
hhh)

[Verse]
         
I hear Jerusal

   
em bells are r

inging 
             
Roman Cavalry 


choirs are sin

ging 
         
Be my mirror, 

   
my sword, and 

shield 
             
My missionarie

       
s in a foreign

 field 
         
For some reaso

    
n I can't expl

ain 
             
I know Saint P

           
eter will call

            
 my name ,
         
never an hones

 
t word
              
But that was w

             
hen I ruled th

  
e world