Make And Break Harbour Chords by Stan Rogers

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_ _ _ How still [D] lies the [Bm] bay in [G] the light western [A] airs,
Which [Em] blow from [G] the crimson [A]
horizon.
_ _ _ Once [D] more we tack home [G] with a dry [A] empty hoe,
_ Saving [Em] gas [G] with the breezes [A] so fair.
_ [E] _ _ [D] She's a kindly Cape _ [G] _ Islander, old [A] but still sound,
But [Em] so lost in [G] the long [A] liner's shadow.
_ _ _ [D] Make and break and make do, [G] but the fish are so few,
That [A] she won't be [G]
replaced [D] should she founder. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It's so hard to not [Bm] think [G] of before the big [A] war,
_ [Em] When the cod went [G] so cheap, but so [A] plenty.
_ _ _ [D]
Foreign trawlers go by [G] now with long seeing [A] eyes,
Making [Em] all [G] where we seldom [A] take any. _ _
And [D] the young folk [Bm] don't stay [G] with the fishermen's [A] way,
[G] Long [Em] ago [G] they all moved to [A] the cities.
_ _ [D] And the ones left [G] behind, old and tired and blind,
[A] Can't work for [G] a pound [D] or a penny.
_ _ _ In [G] make and break [D] harbour the boats are so few,
[Bm] Too many _ [A] are pulled [G] up and rotten.
[A] _ _ [D] Most houses stand [Bm] empty, [F#] old nets hung [G] to dry,
Are [A] blown away, [G] lost and [D] forgotten. _ _ _ _
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Now I can see the [B] big draggers [G] have stirred up the [A] bay,
_ [Em] Leaving lobster [G] traps smashed on the [A] bottom. _
_ _ [D] Can they think it don't pay to [G] respect the [A] old ways,
That [G] make and break men have [A] not forgotten?
_ _ For [D] we still keep our time [G] to the turn of the [A] tide,
And this [Em] boat that I [G] built with [A] my father,
[G] _ _ [D] Still lifts to the sky, [G] the one longer and I,
_ [A] Still talk like [G] old friends [D] on the water.
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In make and [A] break harbour [D] the boats are so few,
[Bm] Too many [A] are pulled up [G] and rotten.
_ [A] _ _
_ _ [D] Most houses stand empty, old nets hung [G] to dry,
[A] Are blown away, _ [G] lost [D] and forgotten. _
_ _ [G] In make and break _ harbour the [D] boats are so few,
[Bm] Too many [A] are pulled up [G] and rotten.
_ [A] _ _ [D] Most houses stand empty, [F#m] old nets hung [G] to dry,
[A] Are blown away, [G] lost [D]
and forgotten. _ _ _ _ _
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