Chords with lyrics
Difficulty: Novice
Capo 2
E minorEm
Cold February and all is not well
There's few will sleep easy this night
A minorAm G+G
Down on the dockside, grim silent men standing
B minorBm A minorAm E minorEm
Under the pale yellow light
E minorEm B minorBm E minorEm B minorBm
There's scarcely a murmur and laughter there's none
E minorEm B minorBm E minorEm
Of whispering there's barely a sound
A minorAm G+G
For their thoughts are away, down there in the bay
E minorEm B minorBm E minorEm
Where it's said that the Lairdsfield is down
G minorGm FF
Bleak February a cruel bitter wind
Eb MajorEb Dm7Dm7
Stirs up the black briny foam
G minorGm FF
Out there on the sea is no place to be
Eb MajorEb Dm7Dm7 G minorGm
Far better by the fireside and warm
G minorGm Dm7Dm7 G minorGm A minorAm
But not for the sailor the soft easy chair
G minorGm DmDm G minorGm
He's out there earning his bread
C minorCm Bb majorBb
But tonight there are ten who'll work never again
G minorGm DmDm G minorGm
Counted among the drowned dead
DmDm C majorC
Dark February a few flakes of snow
Bb majorBb Am7Am7 A augmentedA
Drift over bowed heads on the stray
DmDm C majorC
By the breakwater side and along by the Gare
Bb majorBb A minorAm DmDm
They wait for the first streaks of day
G minorGm DmDm G minorGm A minorAm
And over the sand-dunes and over the bar
G minorGm DmDm G minorGm
See a few feet of keel nothing more
DmDm C majorC
Held fast in the sand with all of her hands
Bb majorBb A augmentedA DmDm
Barely two miles from the shore
E minorEm D MajorD
Sad February and all is not well
C majorC G+G
There's few will sleep easy this night
A minorAm B7B7
Down at the dockside, grim silent men standing
C majorC A minorAm E minorEm
Under the pale yellow light
E minorEm B minorBm
For down there at Teesmouth
E minorEm A minorAm
The Lairdsfield is drowned
E minorEm B minorBm E minorEm
And with her every man of her crew
A minorAm G+G
Ten men who'll not see the springtime again
E minorEm B minorBm E minorEm
THE END!