Key: E major•
Verse 1
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E
Words and music
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B
E
by jimmy nail
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E
Walking on cobble stone,
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C#m
little bits of skin and bone
F#m
Bsus4
B
E
for a ride
E
A
C#m
I was just a boy of ten
F#m
B
A
old quayside
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E
B
Not all the capstans and
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F#
B
E
But memories just like the seas live on
Verse 2
E
A
E
That was when coal was king,
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C#m
The river a living thing
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Bsus4
but it was mine,
E
Verse 3
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B
E
A
B
This was a big river,
C#m
G#m
I want you all to know that
F#m
Bsus4
I was proud
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E
A
This was a big river,
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C#m
G#m
but that was long ago,
F#m
B
That's not now, that's not now
E
Verse 4
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E
My fther was a working man,
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C#m
He earned our living with his hands
G#m
F#m
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E
He had to cross the river every day
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E
He picked up a union card out of
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C#m
the neptune yard
F#m
B
A
to pay
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E
Then came a time for him to sail
C#m
A
across the sea
And far away
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F#
Finally when the war was won
Verse 5
C#m
G#m
You carried him to where
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F#m
B
he longed to be,
Back to the sea
E
Verse 6
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B
E
A
This was a big river,
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C#m
G#m
I want you all to know
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F#m
B
that I was proud
E
A
This was a big river,
B
C#m
G#m
but that was long ago,
Interlude 1
That's not now
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Bsus4
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E
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E
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E
Verse 7
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A
E
The neptune was the last to go,
C#m
G#m
And then they played the latest
F#m
Bsus4
B
E
number one
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E
But what do they do all day?
And what are they sup
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C#m
posed to say?
F#m
Bsus4
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A
son?
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E
If you you believed that there's
C#m
A
a bond between our future
And our past
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E
We build them strong, we built to last
Verse 8
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'cause this is a mighty town,
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C#m
It's built upon solid ground
F#m
B
so hard to kill,
We will rebuild
E
Verse 9
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B
E
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B
This was a big river
C#m
G#m
I want you all to know
F#m
B
that I was proud
E
A
This was a big river,
B
C#m
G#m
but that was long ago,
B
F#m
B
That's not now
E
A
This is a big river,
B
C#m
G#m
And in my heart I know
E
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TunerE A D G B E
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