Key: G major•
Intro 1
G
C
G
C
Verse 1
C
G
You asked me to jump the forty
G
But I'm no folly built for your lazy pleasure
G
Bm
Your hands were fairly stone -cold
G
C
as you placed them on my neck
We climbed on the train at
Burnham
Bm
G
We anchored our city loving
Killar
Cranky
Bm
C
We made up rhymes and names
for passing polite strangers
climb more snowed -up steps
Existing on the margins,
G
C
Christmas with you all
Berks of
would bring us together ten
G
i carry a memory like a bag full of feathers
G
C
throat but now a warm and dream
who you may be or you may not be
in fate and fairness
C
and all the big questions I could not answer
C
Em
D
G
of art
C
Em
D
G
C
of the waves
Lapping on the shore,
dry shell
G
C
With its salty tongue, like a lounge singer
C
G
I'm caring for the land it's reclaiming I'm caring for the crowds it's destroying
Penguin visits the coast,
Descendants of descendants,
Penguin visits the coast,
Descendants of descendants,
C
D
G
and taken and unloved
C
Baltimore, sailed, hoping to escape my temper I put you in a song,
I wrapped you up with
cotton wool
you took your opportunity
North
C
London,
Hogmanay, the year my faith
The was shattered,
G
C
a sunken city came alive with fireworks
we drank you under the table
He tore up the newspapers
and ate all the jam
G
An d the glassware you collected was smashed and
C
Em
D
G
lilting on the floor.
C
Em
D
G
C
Em
D
G
C
So
Em
D
G
C
G
C
G
C
like a stubborn sea wind
the best news in the world
C
I cannot bear your touch or the share of words
well that's when I need you most
to be quiet and warm and free with a drink
C
D
When the high rolls in,
it's just a question of waiting it out
I swear gets me through
G
C
I close my eyes and everything is okay
And that's when the music,
I swear, gets me through
C
G
C
G
and everything's okay
Baltimore, we sailed,
hoping to escape my temper
you up with cotton wool
battling my demons
North
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C Bm D Em
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