Chords for Eddi Reader - Mother Glasgow

_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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In the second city of [D] the empire
_ _ _ [G]
Mother Glasgow watches [C] all her wings
_ _ And trying hard to feed her [D] little _ starlings
_ _ [G] _
Unconsciously she clips their [C] little _ _ wings _
[F] Mother _ [G] Glasgow's sacrifice [C] _
perpetual
_ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [C] Nestling the billy [G] and the tim
_ _ A [C]
dreamt _ Atukadanda [A] reasent mungo
[D] _ To [G]
try to catch a fish that [C] could not swim _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ Among the flightless birds and [Am]
sightless [D] starlings
_ _ [G]
Father Glasgow knows his [C]
starlings well
_ _ But he won't make his own way [D] up to heaven
_ _ [G] By waltzing all his charges into [C] _
hell
_ _ _ [F]
Mother [G] Glasgow's sacrifice _ [C] _
perpetual
_ _ _ [Dm] _
Nestling [C] the billy and [G] the tim
_ _ A _ [C]
dreamt Atukadanda _ [D] reasent mungo
_ To [G]
try to catch a fish that [C] could not swim _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [Am] And the tree [G#] and the fish [C] and the bird [F#] and the [F#] bear
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ [G] Let Glasgow _ [F] fly _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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[N] _ _ _ _ _ _