Verse 1: A Dbm I can hear the cannons calling Ab Dbm As though across a dream Dbm Dbm And I can smell the smoke of Hell E Ab In every stitch and seam A Dbm And like flowers, the bodies tumble Ab Dbm Around this muddied lot Dbm Dbm I cannot hear them scream Ab Dbm ‘Forget me not.’ Verse 2: A Dbm Your voice it carries over Ab Dbm The hubbub and the hum Dbm Dbm And it paints the sky and circles high E Ab Like the beating of a drum Dbm Dbm You will scream ‘I won’t forget you’ Ab Dbm But I’ll cover my cold ears Dbm Dbm It cannot be a lie Ab Dbm If no-one hears. Verse 3: A Dbm Cos although you say good day to me Ab Dbm I know I don’t belong Dbm Dbm And although you hold my hand and say E Ab ‘I love you’, you are wrong. A Dbm Because love does not exist here Ab Dbm In this garden there’s no feeling A Dbm And you say the words so often Ab Dbm That I barely know the meaning A Dbm And when all the flowers are rotten Ab Dbm And all the cannons shot Dbm Dbm I’ll scream, but you won’t hear Ab Dbm ‘Forget me not’ Verse 4: A Dbm And in years to come you’ll wander Ab Dbm To the place up on our hill Dbm Dbm And then you’ll cry to our painted sky E Eb7 ‘I loved him then, I love him still’. A Dbm And you’ll strew some sage and lilies, Ab Dbm And roses where I rot A Dbm Of all the flowers you picked, A Dbm I knew you would forget Ab Dbm Forget-me-nots.
