ANGELINA’S COMING HOME G
G C
Voices shatter on the high glass ceiling
G C
The sun burns off the early morning rain
G D (F#Bass) Em
Mothers wave to damp-eyed children leaving
D C
And Angelina’s waiting for a train
The ticket master dreams of lonely places
That he’s intent on visiting some day
He tries to read the journeys on their faces
But Angelina gives nothing away
D G C
She ran so fast and she ran so long
D G C Em D
But she’d forgot what she was running from
G C Em
Last night she called her mother on the phone
G D G C Em D G
Angelina’s coming home
Swallows nest inside the station’s arches
Safe beneath their glass and iron sky
But sunlight never falls upon their feathers
And there’s no wind to speed them where they fly
Tired of the eyes of men upon her
Weary of their whispers and their lies
Romance has lost its hold on Angelina
She stares into her mobile phone and cries
THE HEART OF ANN LEE F (Capo 5th fret and play in C)
Intro: C /Csus /C /Csus
C G C F
From Manchester town she was driven away
C G C G
Tortured and tormented day after day
C F C F
Married by force by her father betrayed
C G F C
Scars on the heart of Ann Lee
Her father a blacksmith with brethren in fire
Blind to her will he condemned her desire
To a bed lain with embers of love unrequired
Fire in the heart of Ann Lee
Freed from the prisons of impotent men
Four children taken before they were ten
Her womb was their shroud and their making her sin
Scars on the heart of Ann Lee
F C F G /F /C
Ann Lee was crazy – crazy with love
Raised by the angels their breath was her balm
From beating and stoning they kept her from harm
On her flight to America oceans they calmed
Peace in the heart of Ann Lee
F C F C
Ann Lee was crazy – crazy with love
F C F G /F /C /G
Ann Lee was crazy – crazy with god
When the shakers of Lebanon joined in the fight
War all around them they fought for the right
To swear no allegiance except to the light
The light in the heart of Ann Lee
On the blazing horizon the feet of her lord
Her mother and father Ann daughter of god
In forty eight years all she kissed was the word
The word from the heart of Ann Lee
LOOKING FOR JOHNNIE RAY D (Capo 2nd fret & play in C)
INTRO: C /C /Em /Em /F /F /C /G
C Em
She leans in the doorway tears stream down her face
F C G
watching the highway lights
C Em
And the man who upset her well she knows he’ll forget her
F G
And those all too few and tender nights
Am Dmaj7
And the guard on the beat crosses over the street
C Em Am7
And he asks her if she is ok
Am7(G bass) Dmaj7 Bb
She says “I’m tired of hard men with walls all around them
C Csus C G
And I’m looking for Johnnie Ray”
He asks her for coffee she says “you mean coffee?”
He smiles and he points down the street
The soft moonlight glistens sad-eyed she listens
Did she just hear her heart skip a beat?
They sit over coffee he speaks to her softly
In a strong and a vulnerable way
she looks in his eyes thinking ‘that’s some disguise
I was looking for Johnnie Ray’
G Gsus G F /F G C
Looking for Johnnie Ray
Am Dmaj7
“All I want is a guy who’s not too tough to cry
Bb F
Who’ll stay up when the nights are too long
Am Bb
If he wants to play hero let him be like DeNiro
F G /G G7
Not scared to own up when he’s wrong”
They walked home in the rain and he sang that refrain
She’d heard Johnnie sing so many times
They stood on the step she was tired of regret
So she kissed him and asked him inside
He put ‘look homeward angel’ on her worn out dansette
And they danced all the darkness away
She looked in his eyes and when he asked her why
She said “I’m looking for Johnnie Ray”
FOR THE SEEDS OF LOVE D
(I play this in DADGAD or you can drop the bass E to D and play these chords)
D A D A
In the cathedral of the trees beneath a starry sky
G D A
Where every light looking down on the kingdom of the clowns
D
Is an ancestral eye
And the whispers on the breeze are the voices of my race
And the man in the moon who sings an ancient tune
Has my grandfather’s face
Crack the ice upon the lake sing the songs of yesterday
All the stories written then will be written out again
In a more familiar way
I sit and watch the children play kicking up my childhood dirt
My mother’s voice in dust remains and the blood within these veins
Stained my grandfather’s shirt
G D
And you who hold the seeds of love
A Bm
From the gardener’s hand
G D A
Songs of love written then will be written out again
Bm
For new hearts to understand
My father’s breath against the frost the scent of apples from our tree
Bittersweet the taste of youth on my lips these are the truth
Of the song I sing to thee
Find the nest steal the egg until I know my right from wrong
Now the bird is on the wing the melody she sings
Is my grandfather’s song
You who would protect the seeds
That are not yours to own
A selfishly protected root bears only bitter fruit
Let the seeds be sown
With your self-appointed trust look your hands are full of dust
Let the seeds be sown.
THE DROVERS’ ROAD E
E A E A
She came from the west with her pencils and paint
E B7
He came from the east with his Spanish guitar
E A E A
She drew portraits of ladies and sinners and saints
E B7 E
To sell in the market and trade in the bar
She came down the drovers’ lane deep in the wood
Where the feet of the old ones had trampled the moss
At rest by her fire in the twilight he stood
The guitar on his back made the sign of a cross
E A E B7 E
Down the drover’s road where the rovers drove
A E A E
Their cattle to market their ponies to town
A E B7
She lay there all night in his arms
C#m B7 A
Til the moon came sailing down
Her hair was as black as the sloe in the hedge
Her eyes were as deep and as brown as the oak
He put down his guitar and he sat on the ledge
She unbuckled her boots and in a soft voice she spoke
A E A E
“I eat when I’m hungry I drink when I’m dry
A E B7
I walk when I’m ready I sleep when I can
A E A E B7
If you sing me a love song let it end with goodbye
E B7 E
For I won’t give my heart to a travelling man”
Then he sang her a love song as blue as the night
As sharp as the nails and as soft as a lamb
Of a girl with the hands of a painter in light
Of the deep holy night and the love of a man
“I eat when I’m hungry I drink when I’m dry
I walk when I’m ready I sleep when I can
I’ll sing you a song with no word of goodbye
And will you give your heart to a travelling man”
THE SHORELINE AND THE SEA
D G
If you love me let me know
D A
Don’t just close the door and go
D G
And if you shed a tear for me
D A
Turn your face and let me see
Bm G D
I want to hold you oh so much
D A D
I need love that I can touch
D G
Love that will wash over me
D A D
Like the shoreline and the sea
I knew a man who lived alone
I met him by my fireside
He watched the dying flame and moaned
“I can’t recall when last I cried
I know I had a lover once
She used to come and go with me
We were happy in the dance
Like the shoreline and the sea”
G D
I’m not asking for the moon
A D
Its light is all I need
G Bm
And I’m not asking for the sun
Em A /A7
Just let it shine on me
I knew a girl whose heart was broke
She brought it out to show to me
Her hands were warm her lips were cold
She sat all day and watched the sea
Oh save me from a fate so cruel
Speak your mind be straight with me
Love be constant love be true
Like the shoreline and the sea
IF I SHOULD FALL FROM YOU C
C F C G
If I should fall from you
C F C G
Too weak to hold onto
F G C F G C
Don’t let me slip or lose my grip
F G C G G7
We built this ship for two
If I should fall from grace
Where no one knows this place
Don’t let me go down below
Save me and show your face
C F C G G7
If I should fall from grace
When morning brings the day
and you dreamed I went away
Don’t mope about don’t scream and shout
Just come right out and say you dreamed I went away
Bb F C
Your story’s my story now
Bb F G G7 C
Your journey’s my journey if time will allow
If I’m the one you need
Don’t shout the odds with me
Don’t make me guess or feign dis-interest
Say you more or less agree if I’m the one you need
If I’m the last to know
I’ve let your feelings go
If I’ve been blind don’t be kind
Just speak your mind I’ll know if I’m the last to know
THE REDCLIFFE BOY F
(I play this in DADGAD with Capo on 3rd. Or you can play it as written here in C Capo 5th)
C G C G
Thomas waits for the van to come in the house that he was born in
C G C Csus C G C
Redcliffe shines in the milk white sun of a misty Bristol morning
C F C G
“Stop your dreaming Tom” his mother cries “you’ve got your flask and your pork pies
C G C Csus C G
You’re a working boy I’ve a home to run and we can’t eat words and we can’t spend rhymes”
F C G C F G
And the van is late some time to dream over Redcliffe’s golden spires
Am G Am G F C G C
Thomas waits for the van to come and in his eyes are fires
The van arrives with the laughing boys their cigarettes and their chatter
Tom fills his overalls with poems their foolish talk doesn’t matter
They talk of football they talk of girls cars and bars and fashion
Tom’s alone in his troubled head with his poetry and his passion
And a tram line track like a lightning bolt from the consecrated ground
Throws sparks in the veins of the Redcliffe boy and draws the bright stars down
“Wake up Tom” the foreman shouts “I don’t pay you for thinking
You can go to church on a Sunday boy monday is for working”
Tom swings his pick in the frozen earth his city’s renovation
Hitler’s bombs stripped the pretty stones of romance and fascination
But Tom goes where on the spiral stair the ghost of a poet wanders
Eclipsed by his death his final breath in Redcliffe’s tower still thunders
The sirens scream and the spotlights glare at Tom on Redcliffe’s spire
His mother cries and the vicar begs “Tom don’t climb any higher”
As he scatters poems on the heads below a voice at his shoulder speaks
“It’s a good life Tom don’t turn and run this way is for the weak”
And he turns to the face of the Redcliffe boy the fiery truth in his eyes
“It was bad love, drugs and stupidity and it’s history that lies “
“Come down come down you Redcliffe boy come down into these arms
We were foolish then and we’re foolish now and we let you come to harm”
Tom looked around for the Redcliffe boy but his ghost was laid in the stone
and the words that he said filled his heart and his head and Tom came down alone
SHADOWS ON THE WALL
E (Capo 4 play in C)
Intro: C /C (remove 2nd finger)/F / Am7
C C – 2nd
When you were young and precious daddy’s little girl
F Am7
With your mother to protect you from the strangers in this world
C C – 2nd
There were monsters in the moonlight there were faces in the clouds
F Am7
But she’d hold you in her sweet strong arms and she’d call your name out loud
G Am7 F
And dad would make his fingers into birds and animals
C /C – 2nd /F /Am7
Funny shadows on the wall
Now you lay in bed for hours you wanna sleep but you just cry
And you ask yourself what happened and you ask yourself why
It’s like everything is useless it’s like everybody’s gone
And you lie there feeling helpless what’s the sense in going on
And you wake up with the terror and inside the burning ball
And shadows on the wall
C G Am7
shadows on the wall
F C
shadows on the wall
Now the doctor says he’ll help you your daddy said that too
And you just want to please them the way that pleasers do
But deep inside you know it’s time to break free of those chains
Don’t take the pills don’t take the shit don’t play their grown up game
And know that I’m beside you if you run or if you crawl
And they’re just shadows on the wall
You fought for independence you fought for love and truth
For the freedom of your children to enjoy their strength and youth
It was you who stood beside me in the dark night of my soul
That little girl grew up to be the one who made me whole
The hands of those who love you make cradles when you fall
And shadows on the wall
VICTOR JARA D
D G D A
Stained by the light of a blood-red sun
D G D A
Dragged from the hill where the soldiers come
D G F#m G
A trail of crimson bleeds to black
D G D A
He scratches the lines in the stadium
G D /A
That he hides in a shoe
Lines on the lips of 5,000 men
A story begun without knowing the end
Though it’s hard to sing when he sings of pain
The singer raises his voice again
A G D A D
“Venceremos – Venceremos”
D /G D A
Six men chosen and six men die
Six stars fall from September skies
The hands that worked in freedom’s fields
Make the sign of a cross one last time
Santiago – Santiago
His conviction his legacy
For the men of the fields and the factory
He sings their silence he sings their dreams
In his last breath he sings their victory
Victor Jara – Victor Jara
A heart of earth stopped by a fascist gun
Joe Hill knew he wasn’t the only one
It takes more than a gun to kill a man
They shot him down but his song goes on
Victor Jara – Victor Jara
THE BITTER WIND F (Capo 5th play in C)
C F
The sweetest girl he ever saw
C F
Walked by his house one day
F C G C F C G C
The sun that fell upon her face the way she walked with ease and grace
F C G F C F
He swore that he would take his place beside her arm in arm
She turned her head and caught his eye
And fire shot through his veins
And in that single moment then he heard her vow to be his bride
He heard her whisper where and when he saw it in her eyes
Am F G F C Am F G F C
But like a ghost she hurried on – She spoke no word and then was gone
Am F G F Gsus / G
a crimson cloud passed through the sun
C F C F C F C F
He watched her fade her cloak of red, the wind blown leaves cried in his head
Am F Am F C F
‘your darling will be yours’ they said ‘but you must win her heart’
He waited out upon the moor
As from the church she came
Another walked beside her there he held her hand and kissed her hair
To see them so he could not bear the voices cried ‘revenge’
To Tavistock he walked that day
And bought himself a gun
To win her heart he tried in vain the wind implored him ‘try again’
But she just laughed, he cried the rain, they stole away the sun
He waited out upon the moor – The sky turned black his anger roared
and from the church he watched them walk
His pistol cracked the man fell dead – he put the gun to her sweet head
He shot her then to his own head he fired two more rounds
But by his hand he could not die
He grazed his head and lost an eye
Into the water leapt in vain but drowning would not end his pain
They brought him back and healed his wound that they might stretch him well
To Exeter they took him down
The judge pronounced him fit to hang
His pleas of madness eased no blame his mother cried the family shame
On Dartmoor still none speak his name but for that bitter wind
That cruel and bitter wind
SAIL AWAY NO MORE
E Esus E A
Tears are falling tears of rage
B7 E B7
Our sad story on every page
E Esus E A
Tears of longing tears of grief
E Esus E B7 E
Sail away no more come back to me
Birds are flying east winds blow
See me crying every time you go
Heartsick sailors called to sea
Sail away no more come back to me
E A C#m
Like a boat on a sea
E Esus E B7
Far away from land and safety
A C#m
Like a leaf from a tree
E Esus E B7 E
Shaken loose and blown away from me
Widows grieving silent men
Brave hearts broken never beat again
One man missing drifting free
Sail away no more come back to me
All songs by Reg Meuross
Copyright 2010 HAT002
Published by Bug Music International
