Bombers Moon chords by Mike Harding

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Novice

Bombers' Moon
by Mike Harding

Verse 1:
C      F
IN '44 in bomber county
C              F
Young men waiting for the night,
C              F
In the hedgerow's birds are singing,
F          G
calling in the falling light,

Chorus:
 C    F                     C
And the Captain says, tonight there'll be a Bombers Moon,
 C    F                C
We'll be there and back beneath a Bombers Moon,
G          F        C
A thousand Bombers over the Northern Sea,
G              C
Heading out, out, for Germany,

Verse 2:
C           F
Chalkie White stands at the dart board,
C            Dm
Curley Thompson writes to his wife,
Em
Nobby Clarke and Jumbo Johnson,
F             G
Playing cards and smoking pipes,

Chorus:
C   F               C
And over the hangers rises a Bombers Moon,
 F                  C
Full and clear rising as the engines croon,
C   F               C
The planes they taxi out on to runway five,
G                 C
And sail off out into the silvery night,

Verse 3:
C       F
Sandy Campbell checks his oil gauge,
C          Dm
the Belgium coast is coming soon,
Em
Curley Thompson lifts his sextant,
F            G
lines up on the Bombers Moon,

Chorus:
C   F
The waves are shining there,
F         C
below the Bombers Moon,
C F                    C
Lancaster's flying high, above the Bombers Moon,
G              C
Coming in along the Belgian coast,
G              C
a thousand silver shrouded ghosts,

Verse 4:
C       F
Flack flies up around the city,
C       Dm
Jumbo Johnson banks his plane,
Em
Goes in low and drops his payload,
F            G
turns to join the pack again,

Chorus:
F                    C
People are dieing there below the Bombers Moon,
 F                     C
The Cities a raging Hell below the Bombers Moon,
G                     C
The planes head back towards the Northern Sea,
G                C
Young men coming home from victory,

Verse 5:
C      F
Over Belgium came the fighters,
C      Dm
flying high against the night,
Em
Curley Thompson saw them coming,
F          G
closing in before he died,

Chorus:
F                     C
Young men shot them down below the Bombers Moon,
F                     C
Shot them down in flames below the Bombers Moon,
G                  C
Young men sending young men to their graves,
G                 C
Sent them down into the North Sea waves,

Verse 6:
C        F
'83 Mrs White in Bomber County
 C         Dm
dusts his picture, and she cries,
Em
Chalky White in uniform looking
F           G
as he did the day he died,

Chorus:
C  F             C
For God's sake no more Bombers Moons
C  F                C
No more young men going out to die too soon,
G                C
Old men sending young men out to die,
G             C
 dying for politicians lies

Chorus:
C  F             C
For God's sake no more Bombers Moons,
F                   C
No more young men going out to die too soon,
G                C
Old men sending young men out to kill,
C  G                C
if we don't stop them then they never will,

F               C
No more, No more Bombers Moons
F               C
No more, No more Bombers Moons
F               C
No more, No more Bombers Moons...