Sad February chords by The Unthanks

Chords with lyrics

Difficulty: Novice

Capo 2


E minorEm
Cold February and all is not well
There's few will sleep easy this night
A minorAm             G+G
Down on the dockside, grim silent men standing
B minorBm    A minorAm     E minorEm
Under the pale yellow light
    E minorEm     B minorBm     E minorEm        B minorBm
There's scarcely a murmur and laughter there's none
  E minorEm         B minorBm    E minorEm
Of whispering there's barely a sound
     A minorAm           G+G
For their thoughts are away, down there in the bay
      E minorEm      B minorBm       E minorEm
Where it's said that the Lairdsfield is down

G minorGm        FF
Bleak February a cruel bitter wind
Eb MajorEb            Dm7Dm7
Stirs up the black briny foam
  G minorGm         FF
Out there on the sea is no place to be
  Eb MajorEb      Dm7Dm7     G minorGm
Far better by the fireside and warm
  G minorGm     Dm7Dm7    G minorGm    A minorAm
But not for the sailor the soft easy chair
   G minorGm    DmDm     G minorGm
He's out there earning his bread
  C minorCm                Bb majorBb
But tonight there are ten who'll work never again
G minorGm    DmDm        G minorGm
Counted among the drowned dead

DmDm       C majorC
Dark February a few flakes of snow
   Bb majorBb           Am7Am7   A augmentedA
Drift over bowed heads on the stray
    DmDm          C majorC
By the breakwater side and along by the Gare
   Bb majorBb      A minorAm        DmDm
They wait for the first streaks of day
  G minorGm    DmDm       G minorGm    A minorAm
And over the sand-dunes and over the bar
   G minorGm     DmDm      G minorGm
See a few feet of keel nothing more
   DmDm          C majorC
Held fast in the sand with all of her hands
Bb majorBb     A augmentedA       DmDm
Barely two miles from the shore

E minorEm        D MajorD
Sad February and all is not well
    C majorC            G+G
There's few will sleep easy this night
A minorAm             B7B7
Down at the dockside, grim silent men standing
C majorC     A minorAm     E minorEm
Under the pale yellow light
  E minorEm      B minorBm
For down there at Teesmouth
  E minorEm       A minorAm
The Lairdsfield is drowned
  E minorEm       B minorBm     E minorEm
And with her every man of her crew
A minorAm             G+G
Ten men who'll not see the springtime again
  E minorEm     B minorBm     E minorEm

THE END!