On Morecambe Bay chords by Christy Moore

Chords with lyrics

Play with capo on 2
Standard Tuning

Morecambe Bay

Verse 1.
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Out beyond the street lamp's
A minorAm       A augmentedA
And the calliope's roar,
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Past the wrack and samphire,
A minorAm        A augmentedA
Beyond the shore,
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I have seen walking through the tide
G minorGm
As the rain cuts through the spray,
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Chinese Cockle pickers
    A minorAm      A augmentedA
On the sands of Morecambe Bay

    DmDm
I stood beside them in the corner shop
A minorAm       A augmentedA
And in the market too
DmDm
I should have spoken to them
A minorAm        A augmentedA
Told them everything I knew;
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Like our mothers told us
G minorGm
As we went out to play
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Never try and race the tide
 A minorAm      A augmentedA
On the sands of Morecambe Bay

     DmDm
    For the tide's the very devil,
        G minorGm
    It will run you out of breath,
        DmDm
    Race you to the sea shore,
        A minorAm        A augmentedA
    Chase you to your death,
        DmDm
    Yes the tide's the very devil
        G minorGm
    And the devil has his day
        DmDm       A minorAm   A augmentedA   DmDm
   On the lonley cockle grounds of Morecambe Bay

    DmDm
Saw them sending money orders home
A minorAm          A augmentedA
There hard earned pay
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Tales of crossing borders
A minorAm                A augmentedA
On the road to Morecambe Bay;
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Sleeping in crouded rooms
G minorGm
On cold hard floors
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Sutch dreamless life
    A minorAm       A augmentedA
Is not worth dieing for

    DmDm
Now I see them in the distance
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Laid out in the morning light,
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Migrant workers,
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Twenty-three where drowned last night.
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Their final phone calls
G minorGm
Half the world had crossed
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Between the river esureys
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They raced the tide and lost.'

       DmDm
    For the tide's the very devil,
        G minorGm
    It will run you out of breath,
        DmDm
    Race you to the sea shore,
        A minorAm        A augmentedA
    Chase you to your death,
        DmDm
    Yes the tide's the very devil
        G minorGm
    And the devil has his day
        DmDm       A minorAm   A augmentedA   DmDm
    On the lonley cockle grounds of Morecambe Bay

    DmDm
In Fujian and Xelang
A minorAm
They mourn their next of kin,
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Gang masters with snake tattoos,
A minorAm                A augmentedA
Call money lones back in
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Broken hearted parents
G minorGm
Watch their children stow away,
DmDm
To die among the
A minorAm       A augmentedA   DmDm
Cockle banks of Morecome Bay

       DmDm
    For the tide's the very devil,
        G minorGm
    And the devil has his day
        DmDm       A minorAm   A augmentedA   DmDm

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