Sparrows Point chords by Richard Shindell

Chords with lyrics

Richard Shindell - Sparrows Point


CAPO: 4th Fret


INTRO: C majorC G+G A minorAm

    C majorC      G+G   A minorAm
My name is William Taylor
     C majorC     G+G
And I was born in '24
  A minorAm        C majorC   G+G   A minorAm
Too late to know the Great Fallen
  C majorC           G+G
In time to know the Great Fall
    FF   C majorC    G+G   A minorAm
When my father died of money
  FF        C majorC   G+G
My mother lived in spite
  FF            C majorC   G+G A minorAm
We laughed when nothing was funny
           C majorC        G+G
And how we wept when nothing was left

   A minorAm     C majorC     G+G  A minorAm
So I left her there in boomtown
    C majorC           G+G
When I reached fifteen years
   A minorAm     C majorC     G+G  A minorAm
And I travelled mostly northeast
    C majorC           G+G
With my head held mostly down
      FF       C majorC    G+G     A minorAm
'Cause they said there was more in Baltimore
      FF     C majorC      G+G
Where those shipyards never close
    FF     C majorC     G+G  A minorAm
You can sell the man your labour
  C majorC       G+G     A minorAm
And send the money home


     C majorC    G+G     A minorAm
Broadway found me penniless
    C majorC           G+G
And the mission found me last
   A minorAm    C majorC    G+G     A minorAm
They gave me a coat and three days rest
     C majorC        G+G
And when I awoke and left
 FF       C majorC  G+G     A minorAm
A augmentedA shroud of steam surrounded me
  FF      C majorC  G+G
And I was borne away
   FF      C majorC  G+G     A minorAm
And I found myself at Sparrows Point
         C majorC   G+G    A minorAm
With a slingshot in my hand

     C majorC   G+G    A minorAm
Standing there around me
       C majorC  G+G
Two thousand idle hands
   A minorAm       C majorC    G+G       A minorAm
Their heads bowed low, their hopes not high
   C majorC            G+G
Their hearts weaned of their homes
     FF      C majorC    G+G   A minorAm
And their pockets full of photographs
   FF      C majorC    G+G
Their eyes full of goodbyes
 FF      C majorC   G+G    A minorAm
I took my place among my kind
          C majorC   G+G   A minorAm
And I held my place in line


INSTRUMENTAL: A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm C majorC  G+G (2x)
       FF C majorC G+G A minorAm FF C majorC G+G  FF C majorC G+G A minorAm  C majorC G+G


    A minorAm    C majorC  G+G       A minorAm
Now I'm twenty-one and well-employed
      C majorC        G+G
And I send home most of my pay
      A minorAm     C majorC    G+G    A minorAm
Which leaves plenty left for cigarettes
    C majorC        G+G
To help me pass the days
    FF      C majorC  G+G     A minorAm
With beloved friends surrounding me
     FF       C majorC   G+G
The cold streets so far away
FF     C majorC    G+G   A minorAm
Three days west of Normandy
     C majorC    G+G
A augmentedA rifle in my hand