F                 Am
I can hear the cannons calling
    E                Am
As though across a dream
   Am                Am
And I can smell the smoke of Hell
     C               E
In every stitch and seam
         F                  Am
And like flowers, the bodies tumble
  E                 Am
Around this muddied lot
  Am                Am
I cannot hear them scream
     E       Am
‘Forget me not.’

[Verse 2]
     F               Am
Your voice it carries over
    E              Am
The hubbub and the hum
        Am                Am
And it paints the sky and circles high
         C            E
Like the beating of a drum
         Am                  Am
You will scream ‘I won’t forget you’
          E            Am
But I’ll cover my cold ears
   Am          Am
It cannot be a lie
    E      Am
If no-one hears.

[Verse 3]
         F                Am
Cos although you say good day to me
    E            Am
I know I don’t belong
       Am                 Am
And although you hold my hand and say
    C                   E
‘I love you’, you are wrong.
         F            Am
Because love does not exist here
         E                 Am
In this garden there’s no feeling
         F              Am
And you say the words so often
        E               Am
That I barely know the meaning
         F                  Am
And when all the flowers are rotten
    E                 Am
And all the cannons shot
       Am                   Am
I’ll scream, but you won’t hear
     E      Am
‘Forget me not’

[Verse 4]
        F                  Am
And in years to come you’ll wander
         E             Am
To the place up on our hill
      Am                    Am
And then you’ll cry to our painted sky
    C                 B7/E
‘I loved him then, I love him still’.
              F                Am
And you’ll strew some sage and lilies,
     E             Am
And roses where I rot
   F                    Am
Of all the flowers you picked,
   F                Am
I knew you would forget
    E      Am
Forget-me-nots.