Wickerman chords by Pulp

Chords with lyrics

Intro:

A minorAm  C majorC  A minorAm  C majorC


Verse 1:

   A minorAm         C majorC
Just behind the station
    A minorAm             C majorC
Before you reach the traffic island
  A minorAm              C majorC
A augmentedA river runs through' a concrete channel
         A minorAm
I took you there once
         C majorC
I think it was after the Leadmill
A minorAm          C majorC
 The water was dirty
     A minorAm        C majorC
And smelt - of industrialisation
A minorAm                 C majorC
Little mesters coughing their lungs up
    A minorAm             C*   B* A minorAm
And globules the colour of tomato ketchup
    C* B* A minorAm
But it flows
     C* B* A minorAm  C* B* Am*
Yeah, it flows

Verse 2:

      A minorAm      C majorC
Yeah, underneath the city
      A minorAm       C majorC
Through' dirty brickwork conduits
  A minorAm          C majorC
Connecting white witches on the Moor
   A minorAm          C majorC
With pre-raphaelites down in Broomhall
 A minorAm          C majorC
Beneath the old Trebor factory
   A minorAm           C majorC
That burnt down in the early seventies
 A minorAm         C majorC
Leaving an antiquated sweet-shop smell
  A minorAm          C*   B* A minorAm
And caverns of nougat and caramel
  C* B* A minorAm  C* B*
Nougat
   A minorAm        C* B* Am*
Yeah, nougat and caramel
N.C.     A minorAm   Am6Am6 Am* A minorAm  Am6Am6 Am*
And the river flows on

Verse 3:

Am°  Amadd9Amadd9 Am°° Amadd9* Am°  Amadd9Amadd9 Am°° Amadd9*
                          Yeah
A minorAm         Am6Am6      Am*   A minorAm
The river flows on beneath pudgy fifteen-year olds addicted to coffee whitener
Am6Am6            Am*   Am°   Amadd9Amadd9
Courting couples naked on Northern Upholstery
Am°°           Amadd9*  Am°   Amadd9Amadd9
And pensioners gathering dust like bowls of plastic tulips
Am°°      Amadd9*   C*       B*    A minorAm
And it finally comes above ground again at Forge Dam:
  C*     B*     Am*
The place where we first met

Instrumental:

E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm  A°  C°  BB  E minorEm  A augmentedA

Verse 4:

E minorEm            G+G
 I went there again for old time's sake
E minorEm                  A°                  C°
Hoping to find the child's toy horse ride that played such a ridiculously tragic tune
BB          E minorEm                     A augmentedA
 It was still there - but none of the kids seemed interested in riding on it
E minorEm
 And the cafe was still there too
G+G               E minorEm             A°
 The same press-in plastic letters on the price list and scuffed formica-top tables
C°         BB                   E minorEm
 I sat as close as possible to the seat where I'd met you that autumn afternoon
A augmentedA        E minorEm                 G+G
 And then, after what seemed like hours of thinking about it
     E minorEm             A°
I finally took your face in my hands and I kissed you for the first time
C majorC          BB               E minorEm
 And a feeling like electricity flowed through' my whole body
         A augmentedA             N.C.     E minorEm
And I immediately knew I'd entered a completely different world
G+G                      E minorEm             A°              C° BB B minorBm
  And all the time, in the background, the sound of that ridiculously heartbreaking child's ride outside

Interlude:

B minorBm

Verse 5:

B minorBm
 At the other end of town the river flows underneath an old railway viaduct
B minorBm
 I went there with you once - except you were somebody else
B minorBm                                 B minorBm
 And we gazed down at the sludgy brown surface of the water together
B minorBm                                 B minorBm
 Then a passer-by told us that it used to be a local custom to jump off the viaduct into the river
                         B minorBm
When coming home from the pub on a Saturday night
                               B minorBm
But that this custom had died out when someone jumped and landed too near to the riverbank
                   B minorBm
And had sunk in the mud there and drowned before anyone could reach them
B minorBm
 Maybe he'd just made the whole story up
B minorBm                           B minorBm
 You'd never get me to jump off that bridge - no chance - never in a million years

Instrumental:

B minorBm    A augmentedA    D MajorD     E MajorE    G+G    F#F#
B minorBm  E MajorE  B minorBm  F#F#

Chorus:

    B minorBm
Yeah, a river flows underneath this city
  A augmentedA
I'd like to go there with you now my pretty
  D MajorD
And follow it on for miles and miles
 E MajorE
Below other people's ordinary lives
G+G
 Occasionally catching a glimpse of the moon
      F#F#
Through man-hole covers along the route
      B minorBm
Yeah, it's dark sometimes
      E MajorE
But if you hold my hand
 B minorBm        F#F#
I think I know the way
  BB
Oh, this is as far as we got last time
A augmentedA
But if we go just another mile
    D MajorD
We will surface surrounded by grass and trees
    E MajorE
And the fly-over that takes the cars to cities
   G+G
Buds that explode at the slightest touch
F#F#
Nettles that sting - but not too much
        B minorBm
I've never been past this point
   E MajorE      B minorBm        F#F#
What lies ahead I really could not say
   B minorBm
And I used to live just by the river
   A augmentedA
In a disused factory just off the Wicker
    D MajorD
And the river flowed by day after day
   E MajorE
And "one day
I thought, one day I will follow it"
G+G
That day never came; I moved away and lost track
   F#F#
But tonight I am thinking about making my way back
   B minorBm
I may find you there
     E MajorE
and float on
  B minorBm         F#F#   B minorBm
Wherever the river may take me-e

Outro:

N.C.
Wherever the river may take me
N.C.
Wherever the river may take us
N.C.
Wherever it wants us to go
N.C.
Wherever it wants us to go


Am°  577558
Am°°  577555
Amadd9Amadd9 577557
A°   577655
C°   x35553
* always strum once

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