Mother Glasgow chords by Hue And Cry

Chords with lyrics

First tab on here, from watching online - couldn't find it properly transcribed anywhere. There's
a bit of feeling to the timing, if you know the song. A augmentedA beautiful ode to Glasgow by Michael Marra,
made famous by Hue and Cry.Feel free to update/improve, and enjoy!

The E MajorE tends to be an E MajorE with a quick flicker to an A, then back again, as played on the piano part to
this song.

E MajorE            A augmentedA    BB
In the second city of the Empire
A augmentedA          BB         E MajorE
Mother Glasgow watches all her weans
E MajorE                A augmentedA BB
Trying hard to feed her little starlings
F# minorF#m           BB        E MajorE
Unconsciously she clips their little wings

Verse 2 as above

E MajorE                A augmentedA        BB
Among the flightless birds and sightless starlings
A augmentedA            BB        E MajorE
Father Glasgow knows his starlings well
E MajorE                A augmentedA    BB
He wont make his own way up to heaven
F# minorF#m           BB        E MajorE
By waltzing all his charges in to h***

A augmentedA            BB    E MajorE
Mother Glasgow's succour is perpetual
E MajorE            BB
Nestling the Billy and the Tim
E MajorE                  A augmentedA  BB
I dreamt I took a dander with St. Mungo
A augmentedA          BB          E MajorE
To try to catch a fish that couldnae swim

C# minorC#m
And the tree
C majorC
And the fish
BB
And the bird
Bb majorBb
And the bell...

A augmentedA    BB F# minorF#m BB E MajorE
Let Glasgow Flourish!