The Last Watch chords by Stan Rogers

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

STAN ROGERS – The Last Watch
from “From Fresh Water” (1984)

Intro:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA B minorBm D MajorD G+G A augmentedA

Verse 1:
   B minorBm        A augmentedA        G+G   A augmentedA
They dragged her down, dead, from Tobermory
  B minorBm         D MajorD        E minorEm  A augmentedA
Too cheap to spare her one last head of steam
G+G       D MajorD
Deep in diesel fume embrace
E MajorE               G+G      A augmentedA    G+G A augmentedA
Dust and soot upon the face of one who was so clean
   B minorBm         A augmentedA        G+G     A augmentedA
They brought me here to watch her in the boneyard
   B minorBm        D MajorD        E minorEm  A augmentedA
Just two old wrecks to spend the night alone
   G+G        D MajorD
It’s dark inside this evil place
    E MajorE                  G+G       A augmentedA    G+G A augmentedA
Clouds on the moon hide her disgrace, this whiskey hides my own

Chorus 1:
     D MajorD  G+G      A augmentedA    G+G A augmentedA
It’s the last watch on the Midland
  D MajorD  G+G   A augmentedA
The last watch alone
  B minorBm  A augmentedA    G+G
One last night to love her
  C majorC  B minorBm  A augmentedA   D MajorD   G+G A augmentedA B minorBm D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
The last night she’s whole

Verse 2:
B minorBm        A augmentedA        G+G   A augmentedA
My guess is that we were young together
   B minorBm         D MajorD           E minorEm  A augmentedA
Like her’s, my strength was young and hard as steel
  G+G        D MajorD
And like her too, I knew my ground
 E MajorE                  G+G       A augmentedA   G+G A augmentedA
I scarcely felt the years go round in answer to the wheel
  B minorBm           A augmentedA        G+G    A augmentedA
But then they quenched the fire beneath the boilers
   B minorBm       D MajorD         E minorEm  A augmentedA
Gave me a watch and showed me out the door
  G+G         D MajorD
At sixty-four, you’re still the best
E MajorE                    G+G     A augmentedA     G+G A augmentedA
One year more, and then you’re less than dust upon the floor

Chorus 2:
     D MajorD  G+G      A augmentedA    G+G A augmentedA
It’s the last watch on the Midland
  D MajorD  G+G   A augmentedA
The last watch alone
  B minorBm  A augmentedA    G+G
One last night to love her
  C majorC  B minorBm  A augmentedA   D MajorD   G+G A augmentedA B minorBm D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
The last night she’s whole

Verse 3:
  B minorBm        A augmentedA       G+G A augmentedA
So here’s to useless superannuation
  B minorBm      D MajorD       E minorEm  A augmentedA
And us old relics of the days of steam
    G+G        D MajorD
In the morning, Lord, I would prefer
   E MajorE                 G+G   A augmentedA      G+G A augmentedA
When men with torches come for her, let angels come for me

Chorus 3:
     D MajorD  G+G      A augmentedA    G+G A augmentedA
It’s the last watch on the Midland
  D MajorD  G+G   A augmentedA
The last watch alone
  B minorBm  A augmentedA    G+G
One last night to love her
  C majorC  B minorBm  A augmentedA   D MajorD
The last night she’s whole
G+G  A augmentedA  D MajorD  G+G      A augmentedA    G+G A augmentedA
It’s the last watch on the Midland
  D MajorD  G+G   A augmentedA
The last watch alone
  B minorBm  A augmentedA    G+G
One last night to love her
  C majorC  B minorBm  A augmentedA   D MajorD   G+G A augmentedA B minorBm
The last night she’s whole