Chords for Manuscript - Al Stewart |Lyrics| HD
Tempo:
63.6 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Jam Along & Learn...
Prince [G] [D] [G]
[D] Louis [A] Battenberg is burning, the [G] Admiralty lights down low,
papers [G] sealed with a crown.
[A] Fisher is writing to [G] Churchill, calling for [D] more dreadnoughts,
Hydeny [G] are all falling down.
And my grandmother sits [A] on the beach in the [D] days before the war,
[G] time seems to pause,
die on the [Dm] shore.
[D] Louis [A] Battenberg is burning, the [G] Admiralty lights down low,
papers [G] sealed with a crown.
[A] Fisher is writing to [G] Churchill, calling for [D] more dreadnoughts,
Hydeny [G] are all falling down.
And my grandmother sits [A] on the beach in the [D] days before the war,
[G] time seems to pause,
die on the [Dm] shore.
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Prince [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ Louis [A] Battenberg is burning, the [G] Admiralty lights down low,
[D] Silently [A] sifting through papers [G] sealed with a crown.
_ _ _ [D] Admiral Lord [A] Fisher is writing to [G] Churchill, calling for [D] more dreadnoughts,
The [A] houses in Hydeny [G] are all falling down.
_ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ And my grandmother sits [A] on the beach in the [D] days before the war,
[Dm] Young girl writing her diary, while [G] time seems to pause,
[Bb] Watching the waves as they come one by one to die on the [Dm] shore.
_ _ _ _ Kissing feet _ [A] _ _ _ of [D] _
[D] England.
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ Oh, the lights of St.
Petersburg [A] come on as usual,
[G] Although the air [D] seems charged with a strangeness of late,
Yet there's nothing [G] to touch.
_ And the [D] Tsar in his great winter [A] palace has called [G] for the foreign news,
[D] An archduke was shot down [A] in Bosnia, but [G] nothing much. _ _ _ _
_ _ My grandmother sits [A] by the mirror in the days before [D] the war,
_ [Dm] Smiling a secret smile _ as she goes [G] to the door,
[Bb] And the young man rides up in his carriage homeward [Dm] once more,
And the sun [Bb] sets gently _ _
_ [A] _ _ on [D] _ _
England.
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ By the day we decided [Am] to drive down to [G] Worthing,
It rained and rained, [D] giving us only [A] a minute to stand [G] by the sea.
_ [D] And crunching my way through [Am] the shingles, it seemed [G] there was nothing changed,
[D] Though the jetty was maybe more [A] scarred than I'd known [G] it to be.
_ _ [D] _ _ _
_ And Mandy and [A] I stood instead at the [D] overcast sky,
[Am] Where ten years ago we had stood, my grandfather [G] and I,
_ [Bb] And the waves still rushed in as they had the year that he [Dm] died,
_ [Bb] And it seemed that my lifetime was shrunken and lost in [Dm] the tide,
As it rose and [Bb] fell on the _ side _ [A] _ _ _ [A] of [Eb] _
_ [D] England. _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Prince Louis Battenberg [Am] is burning the Admiralty lights.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ Louis [A] Battenberg is burning, the [G] Admiralty lights down low,
[D] Silently [A] sifting through papers [G] sealed with a crown.
_ _ _ [D] Admiral Lord [A] Fisher is writing to [G] Churchill, calling for [D] more dreadnoughts,
The [A] houses in Hydeny [G] are all falling down.
_ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ And my grandmother sits [A] on the beach in the [D] days before the war,
[Dm] Young girl writing her diary, while [G] time seems to pause,
[Bb] Watching the waves as they come one by one to die on the [Dm] shore.
_ _ _ _ Kissing feet _ [A] _ _ _ of [D] _
[D] England.
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ Oh, the lights of St.
Petersburg [A] come on as usual,
[G] Although the air [D] seems charged with a strangeness of late,
Yet there's nothing [G] to touch.
_ And the [D] Tsar in his great winter [A] palace has called [G] for the foreign news,
[D] An archduke was shot down [A] in Bosnia, but [G] nothing much. _ _ _ _
_ _ My grandmother sits [A] by the mirror in the days before [D] the war,
_ [Dm] Smiling a secret smile _ as she goes [G] to the door,
[Bb] And the young man rides up in his carriage homeward [Dm] once more,
And the sun [Bb] sets gently _ _
_ [A] _ _ on [D] _ _
England.
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ By the day we decided [Am] to drive down to [G] Worthing,
It rained and rained, [D] giving us only [A] a minute to stand [G] by the sea.
_ [D] And crunching my way through [Am] the shingles, it seemed [G] there was nothing changed,
[D] Though the jetty was maybe more [A] scarred than I'd known [G] it to be.
_ _ [D] _ _ _
_ And Mandy and [A] I stood instead at the [D] overcast sky,
[Am] Where ten years ago we had stood, my grandfather [G] and I,
_ [Bb] And the waves still rushed in as they had the year that he [Dm] died,
_ [Bb] And it seemed that my lifetime was shrunken and lost in [Dm] the tide,
As it rose and [Bb] fell on the _ side _ [A] _ _ _ [A] of [Eb] _
_ [D] England. _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Prince Louis Battenberg [Am] is burning the Admiralty lights.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _