Chords for Mary Stanford Of Rye - Meet On The Ledge.

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When Master John Stanford of [G] London Town died,
[Am] They read out his will [F] and his legacy _ spied,
[C] Said, take this bequest [G] for to build me a craft,
[Am] So that with it me name [F] shouldn't die, _ _
And give it [G] to the _
_ [C] RNLI. _ _ _
So they fashioned a light bolt [G] of Liverpool class,
_ [Am] Thirty-eight foot [F] from the stem to the [C] apt,
With a close reef _ mainsail [G] on a twenty-foot mast,
[Am] And to grant the last wish of [F] his life, _ _
Named it [G] Mary [C] after his wife. _ _
She went into service [G] in nineteen _ -sixteen,
[Am] And sixty-three times [F] from the boat as she screamed,
[C] Across the shale of Bright Bay, [G] through the teeth of the storm,
[Am] And into the mouth [F] of the _ waves, _
_ All [G] sailors' lives [C] for to save. _ _
_ Johnny, come [G] home, we all sing from the pier,
[Am] On the _ fifteenth day of [F] November each year,
[C] And one day the sea, she [G] will give up her debt,
[Am] And home will come young [F] Johnny Head, _ _
_ _ Home will [G] come young [C] Johnny Head. _ _ _
_ Young Johnny Head _ [G] had just turned _ seventeen,
[Am] And to serve on the light bolt [F] was young Johnny's dream,
[C] His father was a coxswain, [G] his brother in the crew,
[Am] And to serve he was willing [F] to die, _ _
On the _ [G] Mary Stamford [C] of Rye. _ _ _
On November fifteenth, [G] when the storm had its height,
[Am] The Alice of Regal [F] was losing a fight,
[C] Seven miles from Dungeness [G] she was drifting in lust,
[Am] And the crew prayed and cried [F] to the _ moon, _
_ That's when [G] they heard [C] the maroon. _ _ _
It was four in the morning [G] when young Johnny Head, _
[Am] On hearing the signal [F] he leapt from his back,
[C] With his father and brother [G] they ran like the wind,
[Am] That whipped up the furious [F] _ _ waves, _
For their [G] lives to [C] be saved. _ _
_ Johnny come home [G] they all sing from the pier,
[Am] On the fifteenth day of [F] November each year,
[C] And one day the sea, [G] she will give up her debt,
[Am] And home will come young [F] Johnny Head, _ _
_ Home will [G] come young [C] Johnny Head. _ _
To haul out the [G] light bolt no blood, sweat and tears,
[Am] It took them two hours, [F] must have seemed like two years,
[C] _ Exhausted and spent [G] they set her afloat,
_ [Am] And into the _ [F] barbarous _ waves, _
Wrote Mary [G] to _ [C] Alice's aid. _ _
It was six forty-five [G] when the shoreman lost sight,
[Am] Of the Mary as she pitched [F] out into the night,
[C] And at six fifty-one [G] the coast guard he rang,
[Am] Saying stand down you _ [F] lifeboatman _ brave, _
For the [G] Alice is _ [C] already _ saved. _
_ _ Nobody knows [G] from that day to this,
[Am] How why the coast guard got [Em] word, [F] at eleven past six,
[C] But the message he kept [G] forty minutes or more,
[Am] Well _ seventeen brave [F] men of Rye, _
_ Rode into [G] the tempest [C] to die. _ _ _
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It was almost noon on the [G] _ terrible morn,
[Am] And the flounders and launch crew [F] had waited since dawn,
[C] When _ suddenly _ [G] somebody pointed and cried,
[Am] And there in [G] the surf [F] and the spray, _ _
_ The [Dm] [G] Mary Stanford [C] she lay. _ _ _
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_ Her body was battered, [G] her keel was upright,
[Am] No close reef main sail, [F] no crew burning sight,
[C] They hauled her ashore [G] and they knelt round and prayed,
[Am] Then gazed out again [F] at the mine, _ _
And the tears [G] they ran [C] like the rain. _ _
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_ Then one by one [G] the sea gave up a dead,
_ [Am] First Willie Clark, [F] then young Jeremy Head,
[C] Then _ Albertson Robb, [G] the two cutting boys,
[Am] And three from the Bob _ [F] family. _ _ _
And nine more [G] sons [C] of the sea. _ _
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_ Young Johnny Head, _ he [G] never came home,
[Am] He lies out _ somewhere in [F] the ocean alone,
[C] His comrades lie buried [G] in the churchyard of Rye,
[Am] And they keep him a space for his [F] bed, _ _
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find [C] Johnny Head. _ _
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So the next time he sailed [G] around Hastings,
He'd leave the Rye, _ [Am] look to the distance,
[F] And keep out an eye, [C] and if you see a young man
[G] From the R.N.A. _
_ [Am] standing _ guard over [F] the foam, _ _
_ You'll know [G] that Johnny's [C] come home. _ _
_ _ Johnny come [G] home, they all sing from the pier,
[Am] On the fifteenth day of [F] November each year,
[C] And one day the sea, [G] she will give up a dead,
[Am] And home will come young [F] Johnny Head. _ _
_ Home will [G] come young [C] Johnny Head. _ _
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