Levellers - The beach
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Lyrics by Jez Cunningham (confirmed to be correct by Jez personnally!). the chords are
own effort though, and comments, corrections or sugestions welcome.
(Chords with an * denote a few twiddles with the chords for added effect: lifting of
fingers to get chord variations etc..play with it!)
Capo 2
AmMillions of mega-tons, Emthe power of a thousand suns
AmFallout sky for years to come, Ema pyroclastic grave.
AmWe beached the boat when it ranEm dry, we pleaded with each other, why?
AmAnd in our hearts we wished we?Em??d died before we climbed aboard
AmWell I know it is a weak defence,Em a lifetime of indifference
AmPaid the tax and stalled the rentEm, I didn’t rock the boat.
AmI Ignored the pilgrim suicides, Emtheir human bombs a rising tide
AmWith sanctions failed and tridenEmt fired they finally came for me
BmWhispered tales of creed and flEmag, nowBmhere to ship home the bEmody bags
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Go pay the ferryman and leave their tags rusting on the shore
AmI’m on the run my MPC3 downloads global catastrophe
LiGke strangelove’s darkest fantasyAm, warheads filled the sky
Now a refugee on a Russian sub, a dCeal struck with little Odessan thugs
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How right they were to call us mugs as they waved us out to sea.
(the rest follows the same chords)
After 30 days of poisoned flood, the engines cracked the diesels mud
Biblical tide of sweat and blood we ran the boat aground
And fighting with each other, why?
regretting more we’d never trie
in our hearts we’d already died before we hit the beach
Whispered tales….