Bill Hosie chords by Archie Fisher

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
C majorC  FF  C majorC  FF  G/BG/B G+G A minorAm C majorC FF

Verse:
C majorC
Bill Hosie built a plane
   FF
A augmentedA survivor from the Schneider Trophy Race
C majorC
Seemed like a nice old guy
     FF
With his baseball cap and his sun-slit eyes
      C majorC
He took the airframe, motor, and wings
   G/BG/B      G+G      A minorAm       C majorC     FF
And restored all the fabric, the floats and the straps and things
    C majorC        Dm7Dm7
And the shark on banana skis
  G7G7                  C majorC   FF  C majorC  FF
Was heard to roar once more over Cornwall seas

Verse:
    C majorC
In the 'Twenty-Seven Schneider Race
     FF
It was a Supermarine that took first place
  C majorC
The year Bill Hosie was born
        FF
When there were still tall ships sailin' round Cape Horn
    C majorC
But the S.5 Supermarine
    G/BG/B    G+G     A minorAm    C majorC  FF
Was the fastest Seaplane the world had ever seen
    C majorC           Dm7Dm7
Nearly three hundred miles-an-hour
    G7G7                C majorC   FF  C majorC  FF
With a Napier inline engine to give her power

Verse:
    C majorC
And her daughters flew in World War Two
   FF
Their pilots were known as the first of the few
     C majorC
When the Battle of Britain raged
  FF
The Spitfire blazed across a history page
  C majorC
But Bill Hosie built a dream
  G/BG/B    G+G       A minorAm     C majorC  FF
To haunt the skies with the ghost of a Supermarine
    C majorC         Dm7Dm7
And she rose on the steppe again
     G7G7                 C majorC   FF  C majorC  FF
With the spirit of a Schneider Trophy racing plane

Verse:
  C majorC
She took to the cool spring air
   FF
With Bill Hosie sitting in the pilot's chair
  C majorC
She banked along the Cornwall shore
  FF
Her tail broke away and she flew no more
  C majorC
She fell from her flight of grace
  G/BG/B     G+G     A minorAm    C majorC   FF
The year they revived the Schneider Trophy race
    C majorC       Dm7Dm7
And the Supermarine S.5
    G7G7                C majorC
Was the plane that made Bill Hosie feel alive

Outro:
C majorC  FF  C majorC  FF  G/BG/B G+G A minorAm C majorC FF
G/BG/B G+G A minorAm C majorC FF
G/BG/B G+G A minorAm C majorC FF