On Morecambe Bay chords by Christy Moore

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

On Morecombe Bay by Kevin Littlewood as sung by Christie Moore

A minorAm                   E minorEm
Out beyond the street lamps, where the calliopes roar
A minorAm              E minorEm
Past the wrack and samphire, beyond the shore
    C majorC                    Dsus2Dsus2
I've seen them walking through the tide, as the rain cuts through the spray
A minorAm              E minorEm         E MajorE
Chinese cockle pickers on the sands of Morecambe bay
A minorAm                     E minorEm
I stood beside them in the corner shop, and in the market too
A minorAm                   E minorEm
I should have spoken to them, told them everything we knew
C majorC              Dsus2Dsus2
Like our mothers told us, as we went out to play
A minorAm                 E minorEm         E MajorE
Never try to race and tide, on the sands of Morecambe Bay

C majorC             G+G
   For the tide is the devil, it will run you out of breath
   FF             G+G         E MajorE
   Race you to the seashore, chase you to your death
     C majorC               G+G
   The tides the very devil, and the devil has its day
      FF       G+G         A minorAm
   On the lonely cockle banks of Morecambe bay

A minorAm                  E minorEm
Saw them sending money orders home, their hard earned pay
A minorAm                E minorEm
Tales of crossing borders, on the road to Morecambe bay
C majorC               Dsus2Dsus2
Sleeping in crowded rooms, on cold hard floors
A minorAm           E minorEm       E MajorE
Such dreamless life, is not worth dying for

A minorAm                      E minorEm
And now we see them in the distance, laid out in the morning light
A minorAm           E minorEm
Migrant workers, twenty three were drowned last night
C majorC                Dsus2Dsus2
There final phone calls, halfway round the world crossed
  A minorAm                E minorEm         E MajorE
As between two river estuaries, they raced the tide and lost

C majorC             G+G
   For the tide is the devil, it will run you out of breath
   FF             G+G         E MajorE
   Race you to the seashore, chase you to your death
     C majorC               G+G
   The tides the very devil, and the devil has its day
      FF       G+G         A minorAm
   On the lonely cockle banks of Morecambe bay
     C majorC           G+G
   In Fugian and Xelang, they mourn their next of kin
   FF                    G+G         E MajorE
   Gang masters, with snake tattoos, calling money loans back in
   C majorC                  G+G
   Broken hearted parents, watch their children stole away
      FF        G+G         A minorAm
   To die upon the cockle banks of Morecambe bay

A minorAm              E minorEm
The tides the very devil, and the devil has its day
    FF       G+G         A minorAm
On the lonely cockle banks of Morecambe bay

Mike Hesp

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