Classic Northern Diversions chords by Jackie Leven
Guitar chords with lyrics
- 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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