View Guitar Chords for The last ship - chords ver. 2
Em7/4Em7It's all there in the gospels, tBm7he Magdalene girAm7l Bm7 Comes to pay her respects, but hAm9er mind is awhirlBm7. C D When she finds the tomb empty, the stone had been rolled, Not a sign of a corpse in the dark and the cold.C6/4 When she reaches the door, sees an unholy sight,There's this solitaDry figure in a halo of light. B/D# Em9 C7+/9/E He just carries on floating past Calvary Hill, D/F#In an almighty hurry, aye but she might catch him still. B7"Tell me wherAm7e are ye going Lord, and why in such haste?" D &quB/D#ot;Now don't hinder me woman, I've no time to wEm9aste! For they're launching a boat on the morrow at noon, And I have to be there before daybreak.C6/4 A/C# Oh I canna be missing, the lads'll expect me,Why elsDe would the good Lord himself resurrect me? B/D# Em9 C7+/9/E For nothing will stop me, I have to prevail, Through tD/F#he teeth of this tempestB/F#, in the mouth of a gale, B7C6/4 Am7 D May the angels protect me if all else should fail, C6/4 Bm7 Em /D When the last ship sails." C6/4 Am7 D Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,The nAm9oise at the end of the worBm7ld in your ears, C D C6/4 Am7 D As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea, C6/4 Bm7 Em And the last ship sails.C A/C# Bb/D Bbm/Db Cm7FIt's a strange kind of beauty, Cm7 Bbm7It's cold and austereCm7, Bbm7And whatever it was that ye've doneCm7 to be here, Db Eb FmIt's the sum of yr hopeCm7s yr despairs and yr fBbm7ears, Cm7 DbWhen the laCm7st ship sails. Fm Fm/EbDbWell the first to arrive saw these signs in the eastBb/D, B/D#Like that strange moving finger at Balthazar's FeBm/Dast, C#m7 F#Where they asked the advice of some wC#m7andering priest, Bm7 C#m7 AndBm7 the sad ghosts of C#m7men whom they'd thought long deceased, D E F#m7And whatever got said, they'C#m7d be counted at leastBm7, C#m7 D C#m7 F#m /E When the last ship sails.D7+Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers, Bm7 C#m7 Bm7The noise at the end of theC#m7 world in your earsD, E D7+As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea, Bm7 C#m7 D C#m7 F#m /E And the last ship sails.D7+And whatever you'd promised, whatever you've done, Bm9 C#m7 Bm7And whatever the statC#m7ion in life you've becoDme. E D7+In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, Bm9 E DAnd whatever the weave of tA/C#his life that you've spun,Bm7 C#m7 Bm7 /A E/G# E On the Earth or in Heaven or under the Sun, DWhen the last ship sC#m7ails. F#5