Grey Foggy Day chords by Shanneyganock

Chords with lyrics

Great traditional Newfoundland song in 6/8 time.

Capo III


Chorus between each verse.

G+G D MajorD G+G


        C majorC
It’s been some years ago
           G+G
Since I left from my island
       D MajorD
To go to the mainland,
             G+G  C majorC G+G
Like the old folks would say;
          C majorC
As I walked up the gangway
          G+G
And I stood on the starboard
          D MajorD
And I gazed on the harbour
        G+G  C majorC G+G
On a grey foggy day.

(Chorus)
           C majorC
Summer days they were warmer then
             G+G
When we laughed with the old fishermen,
             D MajorD
And they cursed when the fog rolled in,
           G+G  C majorC G+G
Then they made up the hay;
           C majorC
It’s been more than a long, long time
           G+G
Since I held you and called you mine,
           D MajorD
And we waited for the sun to shine
        G+G  C majorC G+G
On a grey foggy day.


        C majorC
To wake in the early morn
          G+G
To the sound of the old fog horn,
         D MajorD
And wait for the men to return
            G+G  C majorC G+G
With their boats in the bay;
             C majorC
All these things I don’t see no more
          G+G
When I lived on the old cape shore,
          D MajorD
And I gazed on the boats on the moors
        G+G  C majorC G+G
On a grey foggy day.

           C majorC
Summer days they were warmer then
             G+G
When we laughed with the old fishermen,
             D MajorD
And they cursed when the fog rolled in,
           G+G  C majorC G+G
Then they made up the hay;
           C majorC
It’s been more than a long, long time
           G+G
Since I held you and called you mine,
            D MajorD
And we waited for the sun to shine
        G+G  C majorC G+G
On a grey foggy day.


         C majorC
And as long as my heart don’t break,
          G+G
From those old memories,
        D MajorD
Old lovers and old used-to-be’s,
          G+G   C majorC G+G
I’ll come home to stay;
           C majorC
I can still hear the ocean roar
             G+G
Through the hills on the old cape shore,
           D MajorD
There are no fishing boats anymore,
           G+G  C majorC G+G
But it’s a grey foggy day.


           C majorC
Summer days they were warmer then
             G+G
When we laughed with the old fishermen,
             D MajorD
And they cursed when the fog rolled in,
           G+G  C majorC G+G
Then they made up the hay;
           C majorC
It’s been more than a long, long time
           G+G
Since I held you and called you mine,
           D MajorD
And we waited for the sun to shine
        G+G  C majorC G+G
On a grey foggy day.


          D MajorD
And I pray that the sun will shine ....
          G+G   C majorC  G+G
On this grey foggy day.