Classic Northern Diversions chords by Jackie Leven

• Capo on 6th
• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key F#

🎸 Intro:
G (x10)

| C | C | G | G | C |

| C | G | G | G | G



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

🎸 Solo:
| C F | C | C F | G | G | G | G

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

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

🎸 Solo:
| G | G | G | G

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

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

🎸 Solo:
| G | G | G | G

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

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

🎸 Solo:
| G | G | G | G

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

🎸 Solo:
| C F | C | C F |

| C | C | G | C |

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

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

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

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