Chords for Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger - Sweet Thames, Flow Softly

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_ _ _ _ _ _ I met me girl at [F#] Woolwich Pier _ Beneath a big crane [G#] standin'
[C#] And oh the love [G#] I felt for [C#] her [D#] It passed [G#] all _ [C#] _ [F#] understandin' _
Took a-sailin' on the [D#m] river Flow, sweet [G#] river, flow
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London town [C#m] was [F#] mine to [D#m] give her Sweet Thames [F#] flows _ [C#] softly _
Made the Thames into a [G#] crown [C#m] Flow, [C#] _ [G#] sweet river, [Cm] flow
[C#] Made a brooch [D#m] of [G#] silver town [F#] Sweet Thames [G#] flows _ [C#] softly
_ _ At _ _ _ London Yard [D#m] I held [C#] her [F#] hand At Blackwall Point I faced her
[G#] At [C#] the Isle of Dogs [G#] I kissed her mouth [F#] And _ [G#] tenderly [C#] embraced her _
[A#m] Heard the bells of [D#m] Greenwich [F#] ringin' Flow, _ [G#] sweet river, [D#m] flow
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All the [F#] time me heart was singin' [D#m]
Sweet [G#] Thames flows [F#] _ [C#] softly _
[G#] Limehouse [C#] Reach I gave her there Flow, _ sweet river, [G#] flow
[C#] As a ribbon [D#m] for her hair [C#] [F#] Sweet Thames [G#] flows _ [C#] softly
_ _ From _ _ _ Shadwell [F#] Dock to Nine Elms Reach We cheek [C#] to cheek [G#] were dancin'
[D#m] Her [C#] necklace _ made [G#] of London [F#] bridge Her beauty [G#] [C#] was enhancing _ _
Kissed her once [F#] again at Wapping Flow, _ sweet [G#] river, flow
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After that [D#m] there [F#] was no stoppin' Sweet [G#] Thames [C#] flows _ softly
[G#] Richmond [C#] Park it was her [G#] [C#] ring Flow, _ [G#] sweet river, _ _ [C#]
flow
I'd have [F#] given her [G#] _ [F#] anything Sweet Thames [G#] flows _ [C#] softly
_ _ From _ _ _ _ Rotherhithe to [G#] Putney Bridge [F#] Me love I [C#] was [G#] declaring
_ [C#] And she from Kew [G#] to Isleworth [D#] Her love for me was [C#] swearing _ _
Love had set me [F#] heart a-burnin' Flow, sweet [G#] river, [D#m] flow
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Never saw the [F#] tide was turnin' [D#m]
Sweet [G#] Thames [C#] flows _ softly _
[G#] Gave a [F#] Hampton [C#] Court to [F#] twist Flow, [C#] _ sweet river, flow
Into a bracelet [D#] for [G#] her [F#] wrist Sweet Thames flows _ [C#] softly
_ _ But _ _ _ now alas the [G#] tide has changed [F#] Me love she [G#] has gone from me
[C#] And winter's frost [G#] has touched me [F#] heart And put a blight [A#m] upon me
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Creepin' fog is [F#] on the river [D#m] Flow, sweet [G#] river, flow
[C#] Sun and moon and [F#] stars gone [D#m] wither _ Sweet Thames [C#] flows _ softly
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Swift the [F#] Thames runs to [C#] the sea [F#] Flow, [C#] _ sweet [G#] river, _ [C#] flow
Barren ships [D#m] and part [G#] of me [F#] _ Sweet [G#] Thames flows _
_ [G] softly
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