The Brean Lament chords by June tabor

SimplifiedBsus4 · Em · G · E · C …

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G
E
C
Dm
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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Em 
The waters they washed them ashore, ashore
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And they never    will sail the seas
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no more
We laid them along by the churchyard
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Em 
G 
wall
C 
And  all in a row we buried them all
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But their boots    we buried
below the tide
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Dm 
G 
On Severn- side
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Verse 2
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The      gulls they fly over     so high,
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so high
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To       the sea where their bodies
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all safe do lie
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They fly all around and loud
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they do call
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Where all in a row we buried them all
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But their boots    we buried
below the tide
G 
On Severn- side

Interlude 1

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Verse 3
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"spoken:"
The bodies of the drowned at sea
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were not buried at the church
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But at the tideline,
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until the Eighteen- Seventies
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And even when accorded Christian burial,
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Bm 
G 
were never brought into the church it self
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B 
But buried in the sailors'
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graveyard. The sea might wish
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to reclaim them
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Many people believed,
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drowned sailors returned as seagulls
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And that according to Astral Law,
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a gull would attack an exhausted
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swimmer
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Who was still managing to escape his
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fate, out of sheer envy
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of the living
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On many Western coast    s it was the
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practice, even in days of more
Christian funerals
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To bury the boots of the dead
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on the tideline

Verse 4
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The waters they washed them ashore,
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Em 
ashore
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And they never    will sail
E 
the seas no more
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We laid them along by
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Em 
the churchyard wall
C 
And all in a row we buried them all
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But their boots    we buried
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below the tide
On Severn- side