Heavy Horses chords by Jethro Tull

Chords with lyrics

CAPO 3rd FRET
B minorBm
E minorEm    C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
Iron-clad feather-feet pounding the dust
   C majorC    D MajorD      Dsus4Dsus4 G+G
An October's day, towards evening
E minorEm       C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
Sweat embossed veins standing proud to the plough
 C majorC    D MajorD      Dsus4Dsus4 G+G
Salt on a deep chest seasoning
E minorEm    C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
Last of the line at an honest day's toil
C majorC    D MajorD      Dsus4Dsus4 G+G
Turning the deep sod under
E minorEm    C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
Flint at the fetlock, chasing the bone
C majorC    D MajorD      Dsus4Dsus4 G+G
Flies at the nostrils plunder.
   C majorC      D MajorD       G+G      C majorC
The Suffolk, the Clydesdale, the Percheron vie
      A minorAm       D MajorD   Dsus4Dsus4 E minorEm
 with the Shire on his feathers floating
 C majorC      D MajorD   G+G      C majorC
Hauling soft timber into the dusk
  C majorC    D MajorD      Dsus4Dsus4 G+G
 to bed on a warm straw coating.
F#7F#7 B minorBm  G+G B minorBm    G+G      A augmentedA
Heavy Horses, move the land under me
F#7F#7 B minorBm          G+G B minorBm       G+G      A augmentedA
 Behind the plough gliding --- slipping and sliding free
F#7F#7     G+G      D MajorD
Now you're down to the few
      Bb majorBb     FF
And there's no work to do
     C majorC E minorEm    D MajorD B minorBm
The tractor's on its way.


E minorEm    C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
Let me find you a filly for your proud stallion seed
   C majorC    D MajorD      Dsus4Dsus4 G+G
 to keep the old line going.
E minorEm       C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
And we'll stand you abreast at the back of the wood
 C majorC    D MajorD      Dsus4Dsus4 G+G
 behind the young trees growing
E minorEm    C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
To hide you from eyes that mock at your girth,
     C majorC    D MajorD    Dsus4Dsus4 G+G
 and your eighteen hands at the shoulder
E minorEm    C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
And one day when the oil barrels have all dripped dry
   C majorC    D MajorD      Dsus4Dsus4 G+G
 and the nights are seen to draw colder
   C majorC      D MajorD       G+G      C majorC
They'll beg for your strength, your gentle power
   A minorAm       D MajorD   Dsus4Dsus4 E minorEm
 your noble grace and your bearing
 C majorC      D MajorD   G+G      C majorC
And you'll strain once again to the sound of the gulls
  C majorC    D MajorD      Dsus4Dsus4 G+G
 in the wake of the deep plough, sharing.

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