The Blantyre Explosion chords by Strawbs
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Intro 1
(C major) (D minor) (E major) (A minor)
Verse 1
Strawbs - The Blantyre (A minor)
Explosion
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Verse 2
By Clyde's (A minor) bonny banks (G major)
As I (F major) sadly did (E major) wander (C major)
Among the coal (D minor) slag heaps
As (E major) evening drew (A minor) nigh,
I spied a fair (G major) maiden
A- (F major) weeping an (E major) d wailing (C major)
Weeping an (D minor) d wailing
With (E major) many a sigh.
(A minor)
Verse 3
I stepped up beside (G major) her
And (F major) thus I addressed (E major) her: (C major)
"Pray tell me fair (D minor) maid
Of your (E major) trouble and (A minor) pain."
Sobbing and sighing, (G major)
She sadly (F major) did (E major) (C major) answer:
"Johnny Murphy, kind (D minor) sir,
Was my (E major) true lover's name."
(A minor)
Verse 4
Twenty- one years of (G major) age,
Full of (F major) youth and good (E major) looking, (C major)
To work down the (D minor) mines
To High Blantyre (Esus4) (E major) he (A minor) came.
The wedding was (G major) fixed
All the (F major) guests were invited (E major) (C major)
That calm sum (D minor) mers evening
Young (E major) Johnny was slain. (A minor)
Verse 5
The (A minor) explosion was (G major) heard,
All the (F major) women and chil (E major) dren (C major)
With pale anxious (D minor) faces
They (E major) haste to the mine. (A minor) (G major) (A minor)
When the news was made (G major) known,
The hills (F major) rang with their moaning, (E major) (C major)
Three- hundred- an (D minor) d- ten
Young miners (E major) were (A minor) killed
Interlude 1
(G major) (F major) (E major) (C major) (D minor) (E major) (A minor)
Verse 6
Now (A minor) husbands and (G major) wives
And sweethearts (F major) and (E major) brothers, (C major)
That Blantyre (D minor) explosion
They'll (E major) never for (A minor) get;
And all you young (G major) miners
That (F major) hear my sad story, (E major) (C major)
Shed a tear for the (D minor) victims
Who are laid (E major) to their (A minor) rest.
Outro 1
(C major) (D minor) (G major) (E major)
The Blantyre Explosion
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