Earth Shanty Lyrics

Subject: TAB: Earth Shanty by the Groundhogs
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 21:57:30 GMT
Earth Shanty by Tony T.S. McPhee
>From the album Hogwash by The Groundhogs
Standard, EADGBE.
Chords:
D/F# 200232
B -1h3---3-1---1-0- -----0-----------
B -1h3---3-1---1-0- -----0-----------
1. Skywards fly the eagles, as the hawks search out their
2. Seawards fly the seagulls, catching fish beneath the
3. For their young among the shingle to feed them for the
4. back on this and linger, seeking thoughts of yester-
1. prey
2. spray
3. day Look
4. day I recall all the
5. Scenes, forgotten dreams of
6. Grey clouds all day
7. Sun that parched the land and
5. pastures green
6. provide the screen From the
7. robbed the sea
8. Left her dried-up, burnt-out
8. sand.
E -3-----3-1-----1- -2-----2-2h3-----
(strum)
D / Cadd9 / G / Asus4 / G / F / D/F# / / / (3 times)
/us4
And the moon, mirror of the sun,
Nightlight of the world
Drags a blanket of cooling sea,
Across the sand unfurls
In the night when the stars provide
A reason for man to strive
He reasons that's the reason
He's alive
D / Cadd9 / G / Asus4 / G / F / D/F# / / / (3 times)
/us4
Let the stars in the firmament
Remain as bait
For the people whose only wish
Is to leave their home, let them wait
Their impatience is only matched
By a misunderstanding of their fate
Let them get their
Priorities straight
D / Cadd9 / G / Asus4 / G / F / D/F# / / / (3 times)
/us4
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D -5h7-5---3------- -2---------0-----