Key: G# minor•
Intro 1
D#sus4
G#m
D#sus4
G#m
D#sus4
G#m
D#sus4
G#m
Verse 1
D#sus4
Cb
Abm
The waters they washed them ashore, ashore
Ebsus4
And they never will sail the seas
Ab
Ebsus4
no more
We laid them along by the churchyard
Cb
Abm
Cb
wall
below the tide
Cb
Gbm
Cb
On Severn- side
D#sus4
G#m
D#sus4
G#m
B
D#sus4
B
G#m
Verse 2
Ebsus4
Abm
Ebsus4
Ebm
Ebsus4
The gulls they fly over so high,
Cb
Abm
so high
Ebsus4
To the sea where their bodies
B
G#m
they do call
below the tide
Interlude 1
D#sus4
G#m
B
Ebm
Ebsus4
Abm
Ebsus4
Abm
Ebm
Abm
Cb
Verse 3
Ebm
"spoken:"
The bodies of the drowned at sea
Ebm
And even when accorded Christian burial,
Eb
Ebm
Cb
were never brought into the church it self
Ebm
Eb
But buried in the sailors'
Ebsus4
Abm
Ebsus4
graveyard. The sea might wish
Ebsus4
Eb
Many people believed,
Ebm
Cb
Ebm
drowned sailors returned as seagulls
Ebsus4
Ebm
And that according to Astral Law,
Ebsus4
Abm
Who was still managing to escape his
Ebsus4
Cb
of the living
Ebsus4
On many Western coast s it was the
Christian funerals
D#sus4
G#m
To bury the boots of the dead
D#sus4
on the tideline
Verse 4
D#sus4
The waters they washed them ashore,
B
G#m
ashore
B
Abm
the churchyard wall
On Severn- side
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TunerE A D G B E
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