Key: Eb major
Verse 1
B
F#
from Sheffield
F#m
G
Having received a phone call
D
B
F#
From our tearful nephew
B
F#
F#m
G
Whom we had left in charge
Bm
C#m
It's happened again,
D
Em
the pub's flooded again
F#
D
G
Humber burst its banks this morning
Verse 2
D
Am
E
We've been over to see our mam
D
Am
E
D#
Who's in the later stages of dementia
G#m
B
C#
She didn't understand that we had to go
B
G#m
A whole box of Maltesers got
Verse 3
Bm
C
How little we are,
Em
D
clung to the river's edge
Bm
C
Come hell or high water,
Em
D
how little we are
C
Bm
C
Em
ahh, ahh- ahh- ah h- ahh
Verse 4
D
B
We park up by the derelict primary school
F#
G
Tie bags for life around our ankles
D
B
And wade across the playing field
F#
F#m
Through the council estate
Bm
A
The whole town's come out
D
Em
to stand dumbly about
F#
Gdim
D
G
Staring at the filthy water
Verse 5
D
Am
The guy from the vape shop
D
Am
Waves to us cheerily
E
D#
From a leaky kayak
G#m
B
I've lost everything apart from what counts
F#
G#m
Pointing to his dogs
B
F#
and then at his heart
Verse 6
Bm
C
How little we are,
Em
D
clung to the river's edge
Bm
C
Em
D
Come hell or high water, how little we are
Ahh, ahh- ahh- ahh, ahh,
Bm
C
Bm
C
ah h- ah h- ahh- ahh
Verse 7
Bm
G
adequate flood defences
D
B
Somehow putting it down to an
Bm
F#m
Insurge of benefit-
B
F#
black puddings, ham and haggises
G
Em
G
Bm
we hurry past the baying throng
C#m
D
Em
Our beer garden lies in disarray
F#
D
Tangled chair legs and
Verse 8
A
Am
Crossing the threshold,
A
Am
To find our neighbours who we've
E
D#
G#m
never actually spoke to
G#m
F#
Lifting the tables clear and sweeping
Verse 9
them away the liquid mud
Bm
C
How little we are,
Em
D
clung to the river's edge
Bm
C
Come hell or high water,
Em
D
how little we are
Bm
C
Bm
C
D
Em
E
B
D
B
Ahh, ahh- ahh- ah h, ahh, ah h- ahh- ahh- ahh
Interlude 1
E
F#
B
D
C#m
G#m
B
A
B
A
Bm
C
Em
D
Bm
C
Em
D
Bm
C
Em
D
Bm
C
Em
D
Verse 10
Bm
C
How little we are,
Em
D
in the mouth of the world
Bm
C
Come hell or high water,
Em
E
how little we are
Bm
C
Ahh, ahh- ahh- ahh,
Bm
C
Bm
C
ahh, ahh- ah h- ahh- ahh
Bm
C
Ahh, ahh- ahh- ahh, ahh,
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