Chords for The Shores of Normandy - Jim Radford (D-Day 70 Years On)

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_ _ _ _ _ In the cold grey light _ of the sixth of June, _ _ in the year of _ 44, _ _
_ _ _ the [F] Empire lads _ [C] sailed out from _ Poole _ to [G] join with thousands _ more. _ _ _ _ _
The [Am] largest fleet the [F] world had seen, _ _ _ [C] we sailed in close array,
_ _ and _ _ we set our course _
[G] _ for [F] Normandy _ [C] _
at the [D] dawning _ of the [C] day.
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There was not one man _ in [A] all our crew _ _ but [E] knew what lay in store, _ _
_ _ [Am] for we had waited for [F] that day [Am] _ _ [C] through _ five long years [F] of war. _
_ We _ _ _ [C] _
knew that many would not return, _ _ _ but all our hearts were [Em] true, _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] for we were bound for _
[Em] Normandy _ _ _ where [F] we had a [G] job to [C] do. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] Now the Empire Lodge _ was [Em] a deep sea toke _ with [C] a crew of thirty-three,
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] and I was just the galley [F] boy _ on my [C] first trip to sea.
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_ _ _ _ [Am] I little thought [Bm] when I left [C] home _ _ of the [F] dreadful sights I'd [G] see, _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] but I came to manhood on [Em] the day _ that I [Dm] first saw [G]
Normandy.
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_ _ _ At Arromanche, off the beach of Gaul, _ neath the [G] rocket's deadly glare, _ _
we towed our block ships [Am] into [Em] place, _ _ and we [F] built a harbour there.
[G] _ _ _ _ Mid [Am] shot and shell we [Em] built it well, _ as [Am] history [G] does agree, _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ while brave men [G]
died in the [F] swirling tide [Em] _ _
on the [C] _ shores of Normandy.
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[G] For every hero's name [Am] that's known, _ a [F] thousand died as well,
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] on stakes and wires their bodies [F] hung, _ _ [C] rocked in the ocean's swell,
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] and many a [G] mother wept [F] that day _ for the sons they loved so [G]
well,
_ _ _ _ _ men [Am] who cracked a joke _ and catched [C] a smoke _ _ as they [F] stormed the gates of [C] hell. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ As the years pass by, I can still recall _ the men I [F] saw that [Em] day,
_ _ _ who died [Dm] upon that [C] blood-soaked sand _ _ [F] where now sweet children [G] play, _
_ _ _ _ [Am] and those of you who [G] were unborn, _ _ _
[C] _ who've lived in liberty,
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] remember _ those [C] who made [F] it so _ _ on the [C] _ shores of [G]
Normandy.
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