Artist - Al Stewart ********************* Song - Manuscript ******************* Album - To Whom It May Concern ********* Tabbed By - Ayreon77 ********************** This Is the Small part he does on the G, and comes in Every so often.

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^DPrince Louis Battenberg is ^Aburning the Admiralty l^Gights down low ^DSilently sifting through ^Apapers sealed with a ^Gcrown ^DAdmiral Lord Fisher is ^Awriting to Churchill, ^Gcalling for more ^DDreadnoughts The houses in ^AHackney are all falling ^Gdown

And my grandmother sits on the ^Abeach in the days before the ^Dwar ^BbYoung girl writing her ^Ddiary, ^F while time seems to p^Gause ^BbWatching the waves as they come one by one to die on the ^Dshore ^F Kissing the ^Bbfeeeeee^Aeeeeet ^Dof England.

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Oh the ^Dlights of Saint Petersburg ^Acome on as usual ^GAlthough the air seems ^Dcharged with a strangeness of ^Alate, yet there's nothing to ^Gtouch And the ^DTsar in his great Winter ^APalace has called for the ^Gforeign news An ^Darchduke was shot down in ^ABosnia, but nothing ^Gmuch

And my grandmother sits before the ^Amirror in the days before the ^Dwar ^BbSmiling a secret ^Dsmile ^F as she goes to the ^Gdoor And the ^Bbyoung man rides off in his carriage, homeward once ^Dmore ^F And the sun sets ^Bbgentlyyyyyy^Ayyyyyy ^Don England.

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Ah the ^Dday we decided to ^Adrive down to Worthing, it ^Grained and rained ^DGiving us only a ^Aminute to stand by the ^Gsea And ^Dcrunching my way through the ^Ashingles, it seemed there was ^Gnothing changed Though the ^Djetty was maybe more ^Ascarred that I'd known it to ^Gbe

And Mandi and I stood and ^Astared at the overcast ^Dsky Where ^Bbten years ago we had ^Dstood, my Grandfather and ^GI And the ^Bbwaves still rushed in as they had the year that he ^Ddied And it ^Bbseemed that my lifetime was shrunken and lost in the ^Dtide As it rose and fell on the ^Bbsideeeee^Aeeeeee ^Dof England

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^DPrince Louis Battenberg is ^Aburning the Admiralty lights^F

A Simple Tune To Play. Enjoy............