The Last Ship chords by Sting

Chords with lyrics

Intro: E minor 7Em7

E minor 7Em7           Bm7Bm7      Am7Am7   Bm7Bm7
It's all there in the gospels, the Magdalene girl
     Am7Am7    Bm7Bm7       C majorC    D MajorD
Comes to pay her respects, but her mind is awhirl
     E minor 7Em7       Bm7Bm7     Am7Am7      Bm7Bm7
When she finds the tomb empty, the stone had been rolled,
    Am7Am7    Bm7Bm7      C majorC       D MajorD
Not a sign of a corpse in the dark and the cold.

       C majorC
When she reaches the door, sees an unholy sight,
          D MajorD       B7B7
There's this solitary figure in a halo of light
     E minorEm            C majorC
He just carries on floating past Calvary Hill,
      D MajorD            B7B7
In an almighty hurry, aye but she might catch him still.

      Am7Am7            D MajorD
"Tell me where are ye going Lord, and why in such haste?"
       B7B7           E minorEm
"Now don't hinder me woman, I've no time to waste!?
      Am7Am7            D MajorD
For they're launching a boat on the morrow at noon,
    B7B7           E minorEm
And I have to be there before daybreak.

    C majorC          A augmentedA
Oh I canna be missing, the lads'll expect me,
    D MajorD               B7B7
Why else would the good Lord himself resurrect me?
   E minorEm           C majorC
For nothing will stop me, I have to prevail,
   D MajorD                    B7B7
Through the teeth of this tempest, in the mouth of a gale.

     C majorC         Am7Am7         D MajorD
May the angels protect me, if all else should fail,
      C majorC  Bm7Bm7  E minorEm   D MajorD
When the last ship sails.

     C majorC      A minorAm      D MajorD
Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
   A minorAm     Bm7Bm7      C majorC      D MajorD
The noise at the end of the world in your ears,
     C majorC        Am7Am7        D MajorD
As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
     C majorC  Bm7Bm7  E minorEm
And the last ship sails.

C majorC A/C#A/C# Bb/DBb/D C#C# Ab/C

Fm7Fm7           Cm7Cm7
It's a strange kind of beauty,
BbM7Bbm7         Cm7Cm7
It's cold and austere,
    BbM7Bbm7  Cm7Cm7       DbDb     Eb MajorEb
And whatever it was that ye've done to be here,
     F minorFm    Cm7Cm7    BbM7Bbm7      Cm7Cm7
It's the sum of yr hopes yr despairs and yr fears,
     DbDb  Cm7Cm7 Fm7Fm7   Eb MajorEb
When the last ship sails.

DbDb                 Bb majorBb
Well the first to arrive saw these signs in the east,
BB             B minorBm         C#m7C#m7
Like that strange moving finger at Balthazar's Feast,

      F#F#    C#m7C#m7        Bm7Bm7   C#m7C#m7
Where they asked the advice of some wandering priest,
     Bm7Bm7     C#m7C#m7        D MajorD      E MajorE
And the sad ghosts of men whom they'd thought long deceased,
     F#m7F#m7  C#m7C#m7       Bm7Bm7     C#m7C#m7
And whatever got said, they'd be counted at least,
     D MajorD  C#m7C#m7 F# minorF#m  E MajorE
When the last ship sails.

     D MajorD             Bm7Bm7      C#m7C#m7
Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
Bm7Bm7       C#m7C#m7     D MajorD        E MajorE
The noise at the end of the world in your ears,
     D MajorD            Bm7Bm7    C#m7C#m7
As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
     D MajorD C#m7C#m7 F# minorF#m  E MajorE
And the last ship sails.

     D MajorD          B minorBm       C#m7C#m7
And whatever you'd promised, whatever you've done,
   Bm7Bm7     C#m7C#m7    D MajorD      E MajorE
And whatever the station in life you've become
    D MajorD          B minorBm        E MajorE
In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son,
    D MajorD      E MajorE     Bm7Bm7       C#m7C#m7
And whatever the weave of this life that you've spun,
Bm7Bm7              A augmentedA     E MajorE
On the Earth or in Heaven or under the Sun,
     D MajorD  C#m7C#m7 F# minorF#m
When the last ship sails.

Other versions of The Last Ship

Alternative guitar chords and tabs for The soul cages by Sting