Close To The Wind chords by Fairport Convention

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
E MajorE  C# minorC#m BB C# minorC#m BB E MajorE

Verse:

N.C. E MajorE    C# minorC#m   BB    A augmentedA
Fare-well to you, my faithful Nancy


   C# minorC#m   BB    E MajorE
And a thousand times, adieu


N.C.  E MajorE     C# minorC#m      BB    A augmentedA
For the constable comes up from Brackley Market

   C# minorC#m   BB     E MajorE
And a hundred volunteers too


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  A augmentedA            E MajorE
No more will we hide in the forest


  F#m7F#m7           BB
For fear they would run us to ground


    E MajorE  C# minorC#m   BB    A augmentedA
But the wild sea, we sailed upon it


C# minorC#m BB      E MajorE
Too close to the wind


Instrumental:
E MajorE  C# minorC#m BB C# minorC#m BB E MajorE

Verse:

      C# minorC#m      BB     A augmentedA
For twenty years we have roved the highways


C# minorC#m BB   E MajorE
Northamptonshire

     C# minorC#m     BB    A augmentedA
Daventry down to the southern byways


C# minorC#m       BB      E MajorE
Topped both the rich and the poor


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  A augmentedA             E MajorE
For ofttimes our families were starving


    F#m7F#m7         BB
And the highway it kept them alive


    E MajorE  C# minorC#m   BB    A augmentedA
And the wild sea, we sailed upon it


C# minorC#m BB      E MajorE
Too close to the wind


Instrumental:
E MajorE  C# minorC#m BB C# minorC#m BB E MajorE

Verse:

     C# minorC#m   BB    A augmentedA
Tonight I lie in a darkened dungeon


  C# minorC#m      BB     E MajorE
Condemned on the gallows to die


         C# minorC#m   BB   A augmentedA
While the man who gave us away is only


 C# minorC#m    BB  E MajorE
Bound for Australia


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  A augmentedA            E MajorE
No man could be found to defend us


  F#m7F#m7           BB
And naught but abuse came our way


    E MajorE  C# minorC#m   BB    A augmentedA
But the wild sea, we sailed upon it


C# minorC#m BB      E MajorE
Too close to the wind


Instrumental:
E MajorE  C# minorC#m BB C# minorC#m BB E MajorE

Verse:

          C# minorC#m    BB      A augmentedA
And the clouds they rise over Northampton market


    C# minorC#m     BB    E MajorE
And the crowds pour into the town


          C# minorC#m       BB       A augmentedA
And the people will throng in these streets until sunset


     C# minorC#m   BB    E MajorE
When the hangman cuts us down


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  A augmentedA         E MajorE
And fifty children of Culworth


   F#m7F#m7        BB
Their fathers are taken away


    E MajorE  C# minorC#m    BB    A augmentedA
And the wild sea, they sailed upon it


C# minorC#m BB      E MajorE
Too close to the wind


  E MajorE  C# minorC#m   BB    A augmentedA    C# minorC#m
The wild sea, we sailed upon it


  BB      E MajorE
Too close to the wind


Outro:
E MajorE  C# minorC#m BB C# minorC#m BB E MajorE