Bill Hosie chords by Archie Fisher

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
C   F   C   F   G/B G Am C F

Verse:
C
Bill Hosie built a plane
     F
A survivor from the Schneider Trophy Race
C
Seemed like a nice old guy
         F
With his baseball cap and his sun-slit eyes
            C
He took the airframe, motor, and wings
      G/B            G           Am             C          F
And restored all the fabric, the floats and the straps and things
        C               Dm7
And the shark on banana skis
    G7                                    C     F   C   F
Was heard to roar once more over Cornwall seas

Verse:
        C
In the 'Twenty-Seven Schneider Race
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It was a Supermarine that took first place
    C
The year Bill Hosie was born
                F
When there were still tall ships sailin' round Cape Horn
        C
But the S.5 Supermarine
        G/B        G         Am        C    F
Was the fastest Seaplane the world had ever seen
       C                      Dm7
Nearly three hundred miles-an-hour
       G7                               C      F   C   F
With a Napier inline engine to give her power

Verse:
        C
And her daughters flew in World War Two
      F
Their pilots were known as the first of the few
         C
When the Battle of Britain raged
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The Spitfire blazed across a history page
    C
But Bill Hosie built a dream
   G/B       G              Am         C    F
To haunt the skies with the ghost of a Supermarine
        C                  Dm7
And she rose on the steppe again
         G7                                  C      F   C   F
With the spirit of a Schneider Trophy racing plane

Verse:
    C
She took to the cool spring air
     F
With Bill Hosie sitting in the pilot's chair
    C
She banked along the Cornwall shore
    F
Her tail broke away and she flew no more
    C
She fell from her flight of grace
    G/B         G         Am        C      F
The year they revived the Schneider Trophy race
        C             Dm7
And the Supermarine S.5
        G7                               C
Was the plane that made Bill Hosie feel alive

Outro:
C   F   C   F   G/B G Am C F
G/B G Am C F
G/B G Am C  F