Hastings Pier chords by Wesley Stace

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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In Hastings when I was younger
I called bingo numbers
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The pier was the place to be
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if foreign  students you would meet
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We walked un  derneath
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the palm's stony beach
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Just near Bottle Alley
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where the land turns into sea
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by  Hastings Pier
In Hastings when I was younger,
amusements in the summer
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A holiday from board    ing school,
busking the memorial
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There I plied my trade to general disdain
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A   handful of loose change
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to burden the machines
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On  Hastings Pier
In Hastings when I was younger
The sea could take you under
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I  never much swam in there
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But      I skimmed some stones
and I breathed the air
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The Who, The Rolling Stones,
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Pink Floyd,
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Sid Barrett's final show
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Didn't take that long to get to wanna know the ghost
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s   of Hastings Pier
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So
In October 2010,
someone torched the pier
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and I watched it burn like Halloween.
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Melting my computer screen
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When the smoke cleared
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it had almost disappeared
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Beaten by the wind and rain
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For one hundred years Hastings
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Take your pick.
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Thank you for watching!