Northwards chords by Beth Malcolm

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Northwards – Beth Malcolm
 
🎸 Verse:
E                                 A
Come ye northwards, homewards, to me
E                                              B             A
I’m afraid if you stay away any longer you’ll forget how it feels
            B                 A          E
To be skint and free in auld Reekie in January
            B               A              E          B   A   E
Watching the sun rise up on Newington in
         E                      A
Come ye northwards, homewards, to me
E                                                                      B                A
If you’re coming there’s a train running, And I’ll greet you where the mile meets Newington
       B                      A          E
To be skint and free in auld Reekie in January
             B               A            G#7      A      E
Watching the sun rise up on Newington in January.
 
🎸 Chorus:
B                                           A                    E
Now we won’t have a lot of money but we’ll spend our Saturdays drinking at the oak
           B                   A                              E
And you’re ma will be no best pleased that you’ve given up accountancy for the folk
          B                            A             E
Aye, but once you decide you’re just a P45 from the next Davy Steele
          B              A        E
Come ye northwards, tae Edinburgh, and see how you feel
 

🎸 Verse:
E                             A
Come ye northwards, homewards, cause that’s where I’ll be
E                            B                       A
Harin’ down college street chasing the revelries with drunken folkies
       B                      A             E
To be broke and alive in an otherwise broken society
       B                      A                   E
Where power and greed has succeeded all sense of community
 

🎸 Chorus:
 B                                           A                    E
Now we won’t have a lot of money but we’ll spend our Saturdays drinking at the oak
           B                   A                              E
And you’re ma will be no best pleased that you’ve given up accountancy for the folk
          B                            A             E
Aye, but once you decide you’re just a P45 from the next Davy Steele
          B              A        E
Come ye northwards, tae Edinburgh, and see how you feel


🎸 Bridge:
                 Bm               A                  E
Though there’s little scope for promotion you’ll be brilliant at the tunes
       Bm                      A                                        E
Your retirement plan’s just a flash in the pan but you’ll be bloody brilliant at the tunes
    Bm                                     A                                       E
And one day when you’re deed and there’s tears in the reem sayin’ he was bloody brilliant at the tunes
 
 
🎸 Chorus:
        B                                     A                 E
Now we won’t have a lot of money but we’ll spend our Saturdays drinking at the oak
           B                    A                             E
And you’re ma will be no best pleased that you’ve given up accountancy for the folk
           B                            A         E
Aye, but once you decide you’re just a P45 from revival of an old dream
           B             A                         B  A  F#  E
Come ye northwards, tae Edinburgh, and give life a try------y