Kiris Piano chords by James Keelaghan

Chords with lyrics

James Keelaghan - Kiri's Piano




CAPO: 4th Fret


INTRO: C majorC  G+G  C majorC  G+G  C majorC

             Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm             FF
Of all of Kiri Ito's joys,     the thing she loved the best
    C majorC    ~    A minorAm      D7D7        FF  C majorC
Was to play her prized piano when the sun had gone to rest
                  Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm         FF   C majorC
I used to hear the notes drift down     along the silent water
    ~     A minorAm          D7D7        FF      C majorC
As Kiri played the notes and scales for her dear sons and daughters

     ~    C majorC  Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm            FF   C majorC
Now me, I played piano,     though not as good as Kiri
      ~    A minorAm           D7D7        FF    C majorC
She went in for that long haired stuff, but my she played it pretty
  ~     C majorC     Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm            FF    C majorC
The old piano had a tone,     would set my heart to aching
     ~    A minorAm           D7D7     FF
It always sounded sweetest, though, when it was Kiri playing


INTERLUDE: G+G  C majorC FF G+G


   C majorC   ~    C majorC         A minorAm         FF   C majorC
In December when the seventh fleet was turned to smoke and ashes
     ~    A minorAm        D7D7        FF    C majorC
The order came to confiscate their fishing boats and caches
      ~    C majorC        A minorAm        FF  C majorC
And Kiri's husband forced to go and work in labour camps
        ~    A minorAm    D7D7        FF
And Kiri left alone to fend and hold the fort as best she can


    C majorC   ~    C majorC       Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm        FF      C majorC
But the music did not drift as often,     up the cove at Kiri's house
      ~   A minorAm        D7D7          FF
And when it did it sounded haunted, played with worry, played with doubt
  C majorC  ~     C majorC      Cadd9Cadd9  A minorAm        FF
For Kiri knew that soon she too would be compelled to leave
    C majorC   ~      A minorAm       D7D7        FF
And the old upright would stay behind and Kiri she would grieve

INTERLUDE: FF  G+G  C majorC FF G+G


 C majorC   ~  C majorC        A minorAm     FF   C majorC
I loaded Kiri on the bus with stoic internees
        ~     A minorAm         D7D7         FF  C majorC
The crime that they were guilty of was that they were not like me
     ~  C majorC        A minorAm       FF
And if I was ashamed, I didn't know it at the time
     C majorC    ~   A minorAm        D7D7         FF   C majorC
They were flotsam on the wave of war, they were no friends of mine


      ~   C majorC      Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm          FF     C majorC
And I went up to Kiri's house     to tag all their belongings
       ~    A minorAm        D7D7          FF   C majorC
And set them out for auctioneers who'd claim them in the morning
     ~    C majorC        Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm       FF
One piece that I thought I'd keep and hold back for myself
     C majorC    ~   A minorAm      D7D7       FF   G+G  C majorC  FF  G+G  C majorC
Was that haunting ivory upright that Kiri played so well


INTERLUDE: G+G  C majorC  FF  G+G  C majorC


   ~    C majorC      Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm          FF    C majorC
Kiri had not left it there     for me to take as plunder
        ~   A minorAm       D7D7     FF    C majorC
She'd rolled it down onto the dock and on into the harbour
      ~    C majorC           A minorAm          FF   C majorC
That old upright in strangers' hands was a thought she couldn't bear
     ~     A minorAm      D7D7      FF
So she consigned it to the sea to settle the affair


  C majorC  ~     C majorC      Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm         FF   C majorC
So many years have come and gone     since Kiri's relocation
      ~   A minorAm        D7D7       FF
I look back now upon that time with shame and resignation
  C majorC  ~     C majorC    Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm      FF
For Kiri knew what I did not that if we must be free
   C majorC     ~    A minorAm      D7D7    FF    C majorC
Then sometimes we must sacrifice to gain our dignity
   C majorC  ~     C majorC    Cadd9Cadd9 A minorAm      FF
Yes, Kiri knew what I did not that if we must be free
   C majorC     ~    A minorAm      D7D7    FF