The Making of Sabbat - Thundersbarrow Hill Chords

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_ High upon the southern downs, [D] through field and over _ stile,
[Gm] I walked to old Thunder's Barrow hill, [D] where I stopped to rest a while.
Then [Eb] I saw a mighty hammer, _ [Gm] with a dragon in full sail. _
[Eb] That's when I heard a voice tell [G] his _ _ [D] _ _ tale.
[Gm] And _ _ so we've reached the final song, [D] Thunder's Barrow Hill.
_ Now, me and Kerry, we [Gm] did our _ genetic [D] testing for the National Geographic,
and for me, on my mum's side, [Eb]
we are very much centred,
her side of the family is very much centred [Gm] around Bohemia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, that kind of thing.
That's where we stem from, and we've [Eb] found out now that the name also stems from there.
My dad's line, [D] on the other hand, when it looked, they show it in arrows.
It was like, I'm [Gm] the first out of Africa, I'm first into Europe, I'm there, whack.
Britain, [Eb] Denmark.
_ _ And apparently my dad's gene [F] _ _ _ _ mutations _ are [Gm] the same of people who were the first people,
they arrived in Europe before _ farming, they were the hunter [Eb]-gatherers.
So my dad's line has been living here [F] for thousands of years.
In fact, they may have been here already on the building of [Gm] those stone circles and barrows.
They were already here.
_ But also he's got a big, big red lump over Denmark.
_ _ Which got me thinking, _ _ _ I'm a druid, [Dm] I follow a [G] path [D] where I honour _ gods [Gm] _ of the Iron Age, of Iron Age Britain, _ Celtic [D] deities.
_ So I know, I know that [Eb] I have a side of my genetics that would have once [Gm] uttered the words Odin, Thor, _ [Eb] Freya.
_ _ _ And those two [D] _ peoples, if you look back, _ history [Gm] suggests that they never really got on.
Although, obviously, I have to say, [Eb] looking at my dad's DNA, _ not only did they get on,
but they [F] got it on too, because I have indigenous Britain [Gm] and Dane in my DNA. _ _
And [D] so I thought, I [Gm] need to honour that part of [Eb] me and my history and my bloodline that goes back [F] to those who honoured those gods. _
[Gm] Now, about 40 minutes walk _ from my house, _ _ up on the downs, [G] the south downs in Sussex, is a hillfort [Gm] called Thundersbarrow Hill.
_ _ _ And it's called Thundersbarrow Hill [D] because just beside Thundersbarrow, _ just beside the [Gm] hillfort, _ _ is Thundersbarrow, an old, [D] long barrow.
_ And I took [Eb] Oscar up there quite often during the summer. _ _ _
[Gm] And _ I just sat there and I just asked to be guided on a [Eb] song.
And Thundersbarrow Hill _ are the words [Dm] that came out through that guidance.
Anything named Thundersbarrow, thunder [D] this, thunder [Gm] that, has got to have its roots in the god [Eb] Thor.
_ And so that is Thor's Hill, here in [F] Sussex, in the land of the South Saxons.
You can't get much [Gm] more _ _ _ wodan than that. _
_ _ So, I know this is my first outing [Eb] into the northern tradition, into Odinism, [F] with my songs.
If you follow that path, [Gm] I hope you [C] feel I've done you [Gm] honour, because that's what it's meant behind this song.
It's an honouring of the gods of those people. _
And, _ yeah. _ _ _
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