Classic Northern Diversions chords by Jackie Leven

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 6th
• Difficulty: Beginner

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

Key F#F#

🎸 Intro:
G+G (x10)

| C majorC | C majorC | G+G | G+G | C majorC |

| C majorC | G+G | G+G | G+G | G+G


🎸 Verse 1:
G+G                 C majorC     G+G
I took a train out of Leeds in the smear and stain
     E minorEm         D MajorD     C majorC
I saw the city pass by in the shuffling rain

🎸 Solo:
| C majorC FF | C majorC | C majorC FF | G+G | G+G | G+G | G+G

🎸 Verse 2:
                  C majorC     G+G
I'm in Huddersfield drinking in the slumbber's arms
   E minorEm           D MajorD   C majorC   C majorC FF C majorC C majorC FF
And I walked through slush by broken farms
   G+G         C majorC    G+G
Where huddling sheep are turning grey
    E minorEm       D MajorD    C majorC  C majorC FF C majorC C majorC FF
In the cold light of a nothing day
      G+G        C majorC      G+G
It took me fifty long years just to work out
    E minorEm            D MajorD     C majorC   C majorC FF C majorC C majorC FF
That because I was angry didn't mean I was right
G+G          C majorC  G+G
Now I'm sitting in a bar alone
     E minorEm          D MajorD    C majorC  C majorC FF C majorC C majorC FF
With the jukebox playing that terrible song
  G+G             C majorC  G+G  G+G
The bartender says I see it's you again
    E minorEm           D MajorD   C majorC  C majorC FF   C majorC  C majorC FF
I been drinking deep from the jar a pain  Jar of pain

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC           FF     C majorC   C majorC
I remember once I went home like this
     A minorAm          G+G    FF
I had my mother in tears as I felt her kiss
  C majorC        FF   C majorC
And now my mother is heaven bound
    A minorAm      G+G    FF
And her body lies in unmarked ground, unmarked ground

🎸 Solo:
| G+G | G+G | G+G | G+G

🎸 Verse 2:
         C majorC   G+G
In every heart in every home
     E minorEm      D MajorD   C majorC  C majorC FF C majorC C majorC FF
There's a dying man who lives alone
G+G            C majorC   G+G
He close the door and he turn away
    E minorEm         D MajorD   C majorC  C majorC FF C majorC C majorC FF
And the tide rushes in on a fatal shore
   G+G       C majorC     G+G
I can never get too close too coal
    E minorEm            D MajorD    C majorC  C majorC FF C majorC C majorC FF
With a glass in my hand and the embers' crack
    G+G            C majorC     G+G
Now the fire's gone out and the chimney's closed
       E minorEm         D MajorD   C majorC  C majorC FF   C majorC  FF C majorC
And there's a round jeer sticking on my back, on my back

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC           FF     C majorC   C majorC
I remember once I went home like this
     A minorAm          G+G    FF
I had my mother in tears as I felt her kiss
  C majorC        FF   C majorC
And now my mother is heaven bound
    A minorAm      G+G    FF
And her body lies in unmarked ground, unmarked ground

🎸 Solo:
| G+G | G+G | G+G | G+G

🎸 Verse 3:
                  C majorC     G+G
I took a train out of Leeds in the smear and stain
     E minorEm         D MajorD     C majorC  C majorC FF C majorC C majorC FF
I saw the city pass by in the shuffling rain
     G+G        C majorC   G+G
And with chimneys leaning to the sea
     E minorEm         D MajorD    C majorC C majorC FF C majorC C majorC FF
I got the salt of Sunderland creasing me
     G+G         C majorC    G+G
I took a jar a pain to the soaking field
      E minorEm         D MajorD   C majorC    C majorC FF   C majorC   C majorC FF
And to the lonely seawall inn south shields, south shields

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC           FF     C majorC   C majorC
I remember once I went home like this
     A minorAm          G+G    FF
I had my mother in tears as I felt her kiss
  C majorC        FF   C majorC
And now my mother is heaven bound
    A minorAm      G+G    FF
And her body lies in unmarked ground, unmarked ground
    C majorC         FF  C majorC
And if I was a man which I am not
A minorAm          G+G   FF
Standing in the least rotten snow
  C majorC            FF    C majorC
I'd fall on my knees and I'd cry out loud
    A minorAm         G+G  FF
To the snowy river and the icy flow, icy flow

🎸 Solo:
| G+G | G+G | G+G | G+G

🎸 Verse 4:
G+G                 C majorC     G+G
I took a train out of Leeds in the smear and stain
     E minorEm         D MajorD     C majorC
I saw the city pass by in the shuffling rain

🎸 Solo:
| C majorC FF | C majorC | C majorC FF |

| C majorC | C majorC | G+G | C majorC |

C majorC                         G+G  C majorC
I took a train out of Leeds in the smear and stain
     E minorEm         D MajorD          C majorC
I saw the city pass by in the shuffling shuffling rain
     E minorEm         D MajorD          C majorC
I saw the city pass by in the shuffling shuffling rain
    G+G         C majorC     G+G  C majorC
And if I was a man which I am not
C majorC
Standing in the least rotten snow
C majorC                    G+G
I'd fall on my knees and I'd cry out loud
C majorC
  I cry Lord
      G+G    C majorC
"Lord, Lord help me,

🎸 Outro:
C majorC
Because my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat
G+G         C majorC
My boat, my boat, my boat, my boat
  G+G       C majorC
My boat, my boat, my boat, my boat is so small
G+G    C majorC
My boat, my boat, my boat
G+G             C majorC
And your sea, my boat, my boat, my boat is so immense
G+G    C majorC
My boat, my boat, my boat is so immense
G+G    C majorC
My boat, my boat, my boat is so immense
G+G    C majorC
My boat, my boat, my boat is so immense

  G+G         FF
Oh Lord, my boat, my boat
C majorC     G+G        C majorC
Lord help me, my boat, my boat
  G+G        FF
My boat my boat, my boat
C majorC        G+G
 My boat is so small
          FF
My boat my boat, my boat
C majorC     G+G         C majorC
 Have you seen, my boat, my boat
   G+G        FF
So it is, my boat, my boat
C majorC   G+G        FF
So it is, my boat, my boat
C majorC   G+G        C majorC
So it is, my boat, my boat, fades out

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