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Thread #124963 Message #2801878
Posted By: Charley Noble
02-Jan-10 - 06:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: High Tide at 4 AM (McFee, Ipcar, Rogers)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: High Tide at 4 AM
Here's my latest revision of the above and a link to a MP3 file so you can hear how I sing it (copy and paste into WORD/TIMES/12 to line up the chords):
High Tide at 4 A.M.
C------------------------------Am------------------F-----------------------G They've tipped and they've shovelled, they've trimmed and they've stowed, ------------F----------------------------G And she's down to her load-line as ever; ------C-------------------C7---------F---------------Dm The bridge has swung round and she's outward bound, -------------G----------------------G7 And she's off to the dark o' the river. ------C-----------Am--------------F-----------G Fare-well to the grime and the dust of the tips, ---F---------------------G--G7 It may be a month or for-ever: -------C-----------------C7------------F---------------Dm She's watched by the ships and the ghosts on the slips ---------G-----------------------G7---------C As she ploughs through the dark o' the river.
-------F-----------G----------------C----------Am Fare-well to the grime and the dust of the tips, ---C---------Am--------F It may be a month or for-ev-er: -------C-----------------Am------------C--------------F She's watched by the ships and the ghosts on the slips ---------G-----------------------G7---------C As she ploughs through the dark o' the river.
C--------------------Am-----------F---------------G She's one with the Mill and the Mine and the Mart; --------F----------------------G Black coal is her cargo as ever: -----C-------------C7--------F----------------Dm But sneer as you will, she bears my heart still -------G--------------------------G7 'Way down in the dark o' the river; ------C------------Am------------F-------------G So I pray to the Lord from my berth here a-shore ---F--------------------------------G A fair weather passage please give her, -------------C-------------C7-------F------------Dm For there's shipmates a-board I may see no more -------------G--------------------G7-----------C Till we've passed through the Dark o' the River!
------F------------G---------------C-------------Am So I pray to the Lord from my berth here a-shore ---C-------------Am--------------F A fair weather passage please give her, --------------C--------------Am-----C------------F For there's shipmates a-board I may see no more -------------G---------------------G7-----------C Till we've passed through the Dark o' the River!