Chords for Jackie Leven - Classic Northern Diversions

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Are you remembering the vocal reverb, Arne? _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ This is a song that started _ _ in the Irish city of Belfast. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You may have heard of Belfast.
_ She is handsome, [F#] she is pretty.
[C#] She is the belle [G#] of Belfast.
_ She is cartoon [F#] one, two, three.
_ [C#] Please won't you tell me who is she?
[F#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _
_ So we were playing in Belfast, _
_ _ _ _ and then we had to drive to Dublin the next day. _ _ _
_ _ And as we drove out of Belfast,
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
I looked out of the car, _ _ _
and I saw walking in the rain,
_ a certain kind of man. _ _ _
A man in an old grey coat, _ _
_ _ with a bottle of vodka in his pocket,
_ _ _ with no happy home to go home to.
_ _ _ No holiday in Greece, _ _ _ _ _ no nothing.
_ Just a look in his eyes, a bit like this. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And I was thinking, _ _
where have I seen men like this before? _ _
_ _ And I thought, oh yeah, I know. _
_ _ _ Just last week in the English city of Leeds, _ _ _ _ _
and in the German city of Hamburg, _ _
_ _ _ and in the Scottish city of Glasgow. _ _ _ _ _
There's a lot of them about. _ _ _
I even saw one today in Bonn. _ _
This is a song for those men, God bless them all. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I took a train out of Leeds, [F#] and just here [C#] I'm staying.
I _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A#m] _ saw the city pass by [G#] in the shuffling [F#] rain. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm in Huddersfield [F#] drinking in this lover's [C#]
arms.
_ _ _ [A#m] _ And I walk through slush by [F#] broken farms, _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ where [C#] huddle and sheep are [F#] turning [C#] grey. _ _ _ _
_ [A#m] In the cold light of [Fm] an [F#] upending day, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ it took me [C#] fifty long years [F#] just to work [C#]
out,
_ _ _ [A#m] _ that because I was angry [G#] didn't mean [F#] I was right. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] Now I'm sitting in [F#] a bar [C#] alone, _ _ _ _
[A#m] _ with the jukebox playing a [F#] terrible song,
a really terrible song, Robbie Williams. _ _ _ _ _ _
The bartender says, I see you, see you again.
_ _ _ _ _ [A#m] I've been drinking tea from a [G#] jar of pain, _ _
_ _ _ jar of pain. _
_ _ _ I remember once I went home like this, _ _ _
_ had [D#m] my mother in tears as [C#] I felt [B] her kiss. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] Now my mother is in a bed,
_ _ _ _ _ and [D#m] her body lies [C#] in unmarked [B] ground, _
_ _ _ _ unmarked ground.
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ In every heart, [F#] in every [C#] home, _ _ _
_ [A#m] there's a dying man [Fm] who lives [F#] alone. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] He closed the door and turned [C#]
away,
_ _ _ _ [A#m] and the tide rushes in [G#] on a [F#] fatal shore. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I can never get too close [C#] to coal. _ _ _
_ [A#m] _ With the glass in my hand [G#] and the [F#] embers crack, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
but the fire's gone out and the [C#] chimney's closed,
_ _ _ _ [A#m] and there's a round cheer sticking on [F#] my back, _
_ _ _ _ on my back.
_ _ _ _ I remember once I went home like this, _ _
_ _ had my [D#m] mother in tears as I felt [B] her kiss. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] Now my mother is [F#] heaven bound,
_ _ _ _ and [D#m] her body [F#] lies in [B] unmarked ground,
_ _ _ _ _ unmarked ground.
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Took a train out of East, near and sane. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A#m] I saw the city pass by [Fm] in the [F#] shuffling rain, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
and with [C#] chimneys leading to [C#] the sea,
_ _ _ _ I [A#m] got the salt of [G#] Sunderland [F#] creasing me. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I took [C#] a jar of pain into [F#] the soaking [C#] field, _ _ _
_ and to the lonely sea wall [G#] in South [F#] _ _ Shields, _ _ _
South _ _ Shields. _ _
I remember once I went home like this,
_ _ _ _ [D#m] had my mother in tears [C#] as I felt [B] her kiss.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ Now my mother [B] is heaven bound, _ _ _
_ and [D#m] her body lies [C#] in [B] unmarked ground, _ _ _ _ _
unmarked ground. _ _ _ _
And if I was a man, wish [F#] I had not,
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D#m]
standing in a lass on [C#] the rotten [B] snow, _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] I'd fall on my knees and cry out loud, _ _ _
_ to [D#m] the snowy river and [C#] the icy [B] blue, _ _ _ _ _
icy blue.
_ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
I took a train out of Leeds, [F#] near and [C#] sane.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A#m] I saw the [A#m] city pass by in the [F#] shuffling rain. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ I took a train out of [F#] Leeds, near and sane.
[C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ Saw the [C#] city pass by [F#] in the shuffling, shuffling _ [C#] rain.
_ [F#] _ _
Saw the [C#] city pass by in the shuffling, shuffling [C#] rain.
_ _ [F#] _ _
And if I was [F#] a man, wish I had not,
_ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [C#] standing in a lass on the rotten snow,
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
I'd fall on my [F#] knees and cry out _ [C#] loud,
_ _ _ _ to cry, Lord, _ _ _ _ _ [C#] Lord, _ _ [F#] _ _ _ Lord [C#] help me,
_ [F#] cause _ my [C#] bone, my bone, [F#] my bone, my bone,
[C#] my bone, my bone, [F#] my bone, my bone, _
my _ _ bone's [C#] so small,
_ _ [F#] _ _ and [C#] you see,
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ so near, ah, _ _ so near, _ _ ah, so [C#]
near, _ [F#] ah.
_ _ [C#] Took a train out of Leeds, [F#] near and _ _ [C#]
sane,
_ _ [F#] _ _ and [C#] Lord,
My boat, [G#] my boat, [F#] my boat, _ [C#]
my boat, _ [G#] my boat, my [F#] boat, my boat, my [C#]
boat, my boat, [F#] my boat, my boat, [C#] my boat, my boat, [F#] my boat, my boat, [C#] my boat, my boat, my boat, [G#] my boat, my boat, my boat, _ [C#] _
my boat, my boat, my boat, _ _ my boat, [F#] my boat, my boat, _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [B] _ [C#] my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, [G#] my boat, [F#] my boat, my boat, my boat, [C#] _
my boat, [G#] my boat, my [F#] boat, my [C#]
boat, my boat, [F#] my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my
[C#] _
_ _ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat, my boat. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _