Stay Still chords by David Keenan

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

** - Harmonic


Intro:

Am7 G Em7
Am7 D Am7 D
Am7 D Am7 D


Verse:
Am7                                                  G
The old man of the sea never told me I would be like you
        Am7                                              G
With my future and my past both slashing at my back, who knew
        Bm7                                                      A
Well my mother and my father and my sister and my brother that’s who
       F                                                    E7           N.C. **
Will I escape from the mouth of the north and the south and spew my truth

Chorus:
     Am7
Stay still like a sleeper in the sand
     G
Stay silent like the dead pipe band
     G
Stay wrapped up like a fist
       E7
In the madness of the murky mist
     Am7
Stay still like a shotgun shell
       G
On the gravel where your childhood spell
     F
Went clicking with the horses hooves
            E7
Through the shadows of the dimly lit rooms
     Am7  D
Stay still


Break:
Am7 D                          Am7  D Am7 E D
      Told the boogey man stay still


Verse:
        Am7
There’s signals in the chimney smoke
     G
Life lessons in a dirty joke
     F
Hear wisdom from the factory folk
        E7
There’s healing in a freeezing soak
                 E7 **
Of the sea, see, see


Chorus:
     Am7
Stay still like a sleeper in the sand
     G
Stay silent like the violent land
     F
Made angry by the poisoned page
         E7
Now they tell us to bottle up our rage
     Am7
Stay still like a sleeper in the sand
     G
Stay silent like the dead pipe band
     F
Made redundant by a techno craze
     E7
They tell us to bottle up our rage
    Am7       D
And stay still


Outro:
Am7 D                    Am7 D Am7 D
    Easy man, stay still