Canvey Island Lyrics

British Sea Power - Canvey Island
Canvey Island is a beautiful song. Someone has already done the chords on UG, but
the chords are mostly wrong - so this is the correct version :)
Verse 1:
H 5 N 1
Killed a wild swan
It was a kind of omen
Of everything to come
Pre-Chorus:
I can't believe it's happening
And that it's happening now
I can't believe it's happening
It's coming true somehow
Verse 2:
On Canvey Island, 1953
Many lives were lost
With the records of a football team
Pre-Chorus:
I can't believe it's happening
And that it's happening now
I can't believe it's happening
It's coming true somehow
Chorus:
Don't you think it's strange, you know
The way it all works out
Brace yourself for storms and Summer droughts, soooooooo
Repeat Verse chords (no singing)
Pre-Chorus: (note - extra E chord)
Sometimes it's hard to tell
If it's going well
You know the odds against it
Were so phenomenal
Chorus:
I can't believe it's happening
And that it's happening now
I can't believe it's happening
It's coming true somehow
Chorus: (with distortion)
Don't you think it's strange, you know
The way it all works out
Brace yourself for storms and Summer droughts
Don't you think it's strange, you know
The way it all works out
You start with everything then end without
Oh!
Oh, oh!
Ohhh...(etc.)
Oh, oh!
Oh it's happening now
Oh it's happening now
Oh...
Oh...
Finish Chord: (lots of distortion)
E chord