Close To The Wind chords by Fairport Convention
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Farewell to you,
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my faithful
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And a thousand times a due
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For the constable comes up from
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Brackley
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Market
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And a hundred volunteers, too
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No more will we hide in the forest
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For fear they would run
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us to ground
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For the wild sea, we sailed upon it,
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Too close to the wind.
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For twenty years we have roved
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the highways of
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Northamptonshire
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From
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Daventry down to the
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Southern
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Byways
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We robbed both the rich and the poor
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For off times our families were starving
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And the highway, it kept them alive
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So the wild sea, we sailed upon it
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Too close to the wind
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Tonight, I lie in a darkened dungeon,
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con demned on the gallows to die.
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While the man who gave us the way
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Is only bound for
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Australia
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No man could be found to defend us
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Nought but abuse came our way
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For the wild sea, we'd sailed upon it
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Too close to the wind
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Interlude 1
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The
Verse 2
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clouds,
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they rise over
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Northampton
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And the crowds pour into the town
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An d the people will
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throng in these streets
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till sunset
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When the hangman cuts us down
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And fifty children of
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Qalbath, their fathers
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are taken away
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For the wild sea, they sailed upon it
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Too close to the wave
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Once safe, we sailed,
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too close to the ground
Thank
Close To The Wind
Fairport Convention
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