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Empire Of The Clouds
Iron Maiden
Key : Em
Capo
[Intro]
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Em | D | C  | D | Em | D 
C  | D | Em | D | C  | D | Em | D 
C  | D 

[Theme 1]
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Em | D | C  | Em 
D  | C | Em 

[Theme 2]
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Am | G | Em | F 
Am | G | Em | F 

[Theme 3]
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Em | D | C | D | Em | D | C | D 
Em | D | C | D | Em | D 
C  | D 

[Verse 1]
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            Em
To ride the storm, to an empire of the clouds
                        D                    C
To ride the storm, they climbed aboard their silver ghost
Em
  To ride the storm, to a kingdom that will come
                       D                C     Em
To ride the storm, and damn the rest, oblivion

[Chorus (1)]
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Am                       G
Royalty and dignitaries, brandy and cigars
     Em                           F
Grey lady giant of the skies, you hold them in your arms
    Am                                     G
The millionth chance they laughed, to take down his majesty's craft
    Em                       F
"To India," they say, "magic carpet float away," an October fateful day

[Interlude (1)]
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Em | D | C | Em | D | C 

[Verse 2]
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Em               Em
  Mist is in the trees, stone sweats with the dew
            D        C              Em
The morning sunrise, red before the blue
Hanging at the mast, waiting for command
              D            C  Em
His majesty's airship, the R101 

[Chorus (2)]
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          Am                             G
She's the biggest vessel built by man, a giant of the skies
    Em                         F
For all you unbelievers, the titanic fits inside
Am                                G
Drum roll tight, her canvas skin, silvered in the sun
      Em                             F
Never tested with the fury, with the beating yet to come
The fury yet to come…

[Verse 3]
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                 Em
In the gathering gloom, the storm rising in the west
                      D               C
The coxswain stared into the plunging weather glass
Em
  We must go now, we must take our chance with fate
                      D             C
We must go now, for a politician he can't be late

[Chorus (3)]
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Em    Am                            G
  The airship crew awake for thirty hours at full stretch,
        Em                               F
But the ship is in their backbone, every sinew, every inch
    Am                          G
She never flew at full speed, a trial never done
    Em                        F
Her fragile outer cover, her Achilles would become
An Achilles yet to come...

[Verse 4]
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               Em
Sailors of the sky, a hardened breed
             D            C
Loyal to the king, and an airship creed
Em
  The engines drum, the telegraph sounds
                 D     C              Em
Release the cords that bind us to the ground

[Chorus (4)]
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         Am                                  G
Said the coxswain, "Sir, she's heavy, she'll never make this flight."
         Em                                 F
Said the captain, "Damn the cargo! We'll be on our way tonight."
Am                                    G
Groundlings cheered in wonder, as she backed off from the mast
   Em                              F
Baptizing them her water, from the ballast fore and aft
Now she slips into our past…

[Interlude (2)]
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Em | D | C | D | Em | D | C | D 
Em | D | C | D | Em | D | C 
D

[Theme 4]
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Bsus4 | Am | G | D7sus2 
Em

[Theme 5]
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G  | Em | C  | G  
Em | C  | G  | Am 
Bm | C  | Dm | Em 

[Theme 6]
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Am | C | Em | C 
Am | C | Em | C 
Am | C | Em | C 
Am | C | Em 

[Theme 7]
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Em | Am | C | Em | C  
Am | D  | C | Em 
C  | Am | C | D  | Em 
C  | Am | C | D  | C  
Em

[Solo 1]
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Em | C | Am | C | D 
Em | C | Am | C | D 
Em | C | Am | C | D 
Em | C | Am | C | D 

[Theme 8]
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Em | C  | Am | C  
D  | Em | C  | Am 
C  | D  

[Theme 9]
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Em | Am | C | Em | C  
Am | D  | C | Em 
C  | Am | C | D  | Em 
C  | Am | C | D  | C  
Em | Am | C | D  

[Theme 10]
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Am | F | Dm | F 
Am | F | Dm | F 

[Solo 2]
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Am | F | Dm | F | G 
Am | F | Dm | F | G 
Am | F | Dm | F | G 
Am | F | Dm | F | G 

[Bridge 1]
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Em
Fighting the wind as it rolls you
C
Feeling the diesels that push you along
Am
Watching The Channel below you
C                D
Lower and lower, into the night
Em
Lights are passing below you
C
Northern France, asleep in their beds
Am
Storm is raging around you
  C               D
A million to one, that's what he said

[Theme 11]
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Em | D | C | Em 
Em | D | C | Em 

[Bridge 2]
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Em
Reaper standing beside her
C
With his scythe cuts to the bone
Am
Panic to make a decision
  C                    D
Experienced men, asleep in their graves
    Em
Her cover is ripped and she's drowning
C
Rain is flooding into the hull
Am
Bleeding to death and she's falling
C                   D
Lifting gas is draining away

[Theme 12]
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Em | D | C | Em 

[Theme 13]
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Fdim | Em   | Fdim | Dm 
Fdim | Em   | Fdim | C  
D    | Fdim 

[Chorus (5)]
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       Am                           G
"We're down, lads!" came a cry, bow plunging from the sky
      Em                            F
Three thousand horses silent as the ship began to die
    Am                         G
The flares to guide her path ignited at the last
    Em                         F
The empire of the clouds, just ashes in our past
Just ashes at the last…

[Interlude (3)]
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Em | D | C | D | Em | D | C | D 
Em | D | C | D | Em | D | C | D 

[Post-Chorus]
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Em             D           C               D
Here lie their dreams as I stand in the sun
       Em                D              C           D
On the ground where they built, and the engines did run
       Em           D          C            D
To the moon and the stars, now what have we done?
       Em           D            C           D Em D C D
Oh the dreamers may die, but the dreams live on
       Em     D C D
Dreams live on
       Em     D C D Em D
Dreams live on
C | D 

[Outro]
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Em D C Em
         Now a shadow on a hill, the angel of the east
                  D          C
The empire of the clouds may rest in peace
Em
  And in a country churchyard, laid head to the mast
                D          C              Em       D C Em
Eight and forty souls, who came to die in France…
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