Shed Song

Shed Song easy guitar chords by Ralph Mctell

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

No capo

Capo

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Capo

  • F

  • Em

  • F#m

    2

  • Fm

  • C

  • Eb

    6

  • Cm

    3

  • Dsus4

  • Dm

  • G

  • D

  • Gsus4

  • F#dim

    4

  • Fdim

    3

  • Ddim

  • Ebdim

  • F

  • Em

  • F#m

    2

  • Fm

  • C

  • Eb

    6

  • Cm

    3

  • Dsus4

  • Dm

  • G

  • D

  • Gsus4

  • F#dim

    4

  • Fdim

    3

  • Ddim

  • Ebdim

    • Intro 1
    F
    Em
    F#m
    Fm
    C
    Eb
    Cm
    Dsus4
    Dm
    G
    F
    C
    G
    C

    Dm
    F
    G
    C

    Verse 1
    F
    C
    G
    Em

    Amongst the tins of nails and things
    C
    Dm
    C
    G

    Is where Grandad and me
    F
    C
    G

    Turned his shed into a
    C
    Dm

    church of masculinity
    G
    F
    Em
    F#m
    D

    No female bothered to intrude
    Fm
    C
    Cm
    Dsus4

    into our sacred space
    D
    G
    F
    C
    Em
    G
    Em

    Con tent in manly solitude
    C
    Dm
    G
    C

    or in shit -stained grace
    F
    C
    G

    To bacco, oil, and creosote,
    C
    Dm
    C
    G
    Gsus4

    this temple's in cense cloth
    G
    F
    C
    G
    Em

    To perfume piety, wooden walls,
    Dm
    G

    where voodoo gasps must haunt
    Gsus4
    G
    F
    Em

    Where priests sleeper
    F#dim
    D
    Fdim

    through bottled meth s,
    Ddim
    C
    Cm
    Ebdim
    Dm

    along with tins of screws
    G
    F
    C
    G

    And ancient saws and chisels stayed,
    Em
    C
    Dm
    G
    C

    and I never saw him use
    F
    C
    G
    C

    This shed was never made for work,
    Dm
    C

    but built for sanctuary
    G
    F
    C
    G

    Where we both took communion
    Em
    Dm

    of biscuits with our tea
    G
    Gsus4
    G
    F

    An d I soaked up
    Em
    F#dim

    crumbs of knowledge
    Fdim
    C
    Cm
    Dsus4

    there behind the creaking door
    Dm
    G
    F
    C
    G
    C

    Ex pounded on the day to day
    Dm
    G
    C
    F
    C
    G
    C
    Dm
    C
    G
    F
    C
    G
    C

    or times before the war
    Dm
    Gsus4
    G
    F

    Em
    F#m
    F#dim
    Fdim
    Fm
    C
    Cm
    Dsus4
    G
    F
    C
    G
    C
    F
    Gsus4
    G
    C

    F
    C

    On shelves where ghosts
    Em
    F
    C

    of laughter slept
    Dm
    C

    Declayed to sooty dust
    G
    F
    C
    G

    Time wrapped round those memories,
    Em
    Dm
    Gsus4

    like moss and creeping dust
    G
    F
    Em

    But in their sleep the
    F#dim
    Fdim

    truth of dream s
    Ddim
    C
    D
    G

    seeped into timber wall s
    F
    C
    G
    C

    Until by simply breathing in,
    Dm
    G
    C

    each one could be recalled
    F
    C
    G
    C

    Intending to rebuild his shed
    Dm
    C
    G

    when Granddad passed away
    F
    C
    G
    Em

    Dismantled it to turn to dust
    C
    Dm
    G
    Gsus4

    till just three planks remained
    G
    F
    Em
    F#dim
    Fdim

    So one for him, one for me,
    C
    Cm
    Dsus4
    G

    one for lives and schemes
    Dm
    Em
    F
    C
    G

    that overlap each history
    C
    Dm
    G
    C

    aboard this ship of dreams.

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