2 acessos
D G [-2--2-2--2--2-2-|---3--3-2-3-2-0----] [-3--3-3--3--3-3-|---3--3-3-3-3-3--3-] [-2--2-2--2--2-2-|---0--0-0-0-0-0--0-] [-0--0-0--0--0-0-|-----------------0-] [----------------|-------------------] [----------------|-3-----------------]X2 E|E|E|--------------------------------------------------------||| VERSE 1 ******** D A G Prince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights down low D A G Silently sifting through papers sealed with a crown D A G D Admiral Lord Fisher is writing to Churchill, calling for more Dreadnoughts A G The houses in Hackney are all falling down D A D And my grandmother sits on the beach in the days before the war Bb D F G Young girl writing her diary, while time seems to pause Bb D F Watching the waves as they come one by one to die on the shore Bb A D Kissing the feeeeeeeeeeet of England. G D G D E|E|E|--------------------------------------------------------||| VERSE 2 ******** D A Oh the lights of Saint Petersburg come on as usual G D A G Although the air seems charged with a strangeness of late, yet there's nothing to touch D A G And the Tsar in his great Winter Palace has called for the foreign news D A G An archduke was shot down in Bosnia, but nothing much D A D And my grandmother sits before the mirror in the days before the war Bb D F G Smiling a secret smile as she goes to the door Bb D F And the young man rides off in his carriage, homeward once more Bb A D And the sun sets gentlyyyyyyyyyyyy on England. G D G D E|E|E|--------------------------------------------------------||| VERSE 3 ******** D A G Ah the day we decided to drive down to Worthing, it rained and rained D A G Giving us only a minute to stand by the sea D A G And crunching my way through the shingles, it seemed there was nothing changed D A G Though the jetty was maybe more scarred that I'd known it to be D A D And Mandi and I stood and stared at the overcast sky Bb D G Where ten years ago we had stood, my Grandfather and I Bb D And the waves still rushed in as they had the year that he died Bb D And it seemed that my lifetime was shrunken and lost in the tide Bb A D As it rose and fell on the sideeeeeeeeeee of England G D G D D A F Prince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights