Roll Northumbria Chords by The Dreadnoughts, Nicholas Smyth, Nicholas Smyth

[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It was late 65 at the old Balsea Yard She was commissioned to haul the black tar
Built the [B] Northumbria there on [A] the bar Roll [B] Northumbria, roll!
When the Egyptians they closed the Red Sea A call came on high from the powers that be
[E] To build a royal monster [B] right down on [A] the quay Roll [Em] Northumbria, [B] roll [A] me boys!
Roll [B] Northumbria, roll!
_ _ Carpathia, vengeance celestial call She was the tanker to outsize them all
From the banks of the Mersey to the port of Hullal
[Em] [B] Roll Northumbria, roll!
And fair princess Anne threw a bottle of wine And watched as the giants set down in the tine
What lay ahead could no mortal [A] divine [Em] Roll Northumbria, [B] roll [A] me boys!
[E] Roll [B] Northumbria, roll!
_ [G] And it's one [D] for the hot sun above [F#]
Two [Bm] for the empire we love
[G] And it's three for [D] the fire that burns [A] down below
[Em] Roll on [B] Northumbria, [A] [Em] roll!
[B] Roll Northumbria, roll! _
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[B] _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ [E] _ [B] _
_ [Bm] _ [G] And it's one [D] for the hot sun above [F#]
Two for [Bm] the empire we love
[G] And it's three for [D] the fire that burns down [A] below
[Em] [B] Roll on Northumbria, [A] [Em] roll!
Roll [B] Northumbria, roll! _
So come all you good workmen, beware the command It comes down on high from the desk of a man
[E] Who's never [B] held steel or torch in [Am] his hands [Em] Roll [B] Northumbria, roll!
For atop a wild breaker that cracks in her frame Spilled her black guts all across the wild main
She limped away through an ocean [A] of flame [Em] Roll Northumbria, [Bm] roll [A] me boys!
[Em] Roll [Bm] Northumbria, roll!
_ [G] And it's one for [D] the hot sun above [F#] Two for [Bm] the empire we love
[G] And it's three for [D] the fire that burns down [A] below
[E] [B] Roll on Northumbria, [A]
[Em] roll! [B] Northumbria, roll! _ _ _ _ _
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