Chris de Burgh – The Escape (Guitar)

Key
-

Auto-scroll

Chords

From his album: Moonfleet & Other Stories (2010) Comment for any corrections and please rate Intro: Em D G Bm Em
     Em
And so it began

                                                D       Em
The story how Elzevir would look after John as his own son

          Am                  
And the smugglers betrayed on Moonfleet Bay

    Em                   D          Em
By Maskew looking now at Elzevir's gun

         G                   D
Then a shot rang out in the morning light

 Em            B
Maskew fell a hole between his eyes

            Em               Am
But it was his own men who brought him down

         B              Em            D               Em
And they also got poor John, oh, they also shot poor John

C G           D         Em
Oooh, it's a dangerous world boys

C G              D         Em
Oooh, with the smuggling crew

C G           D         Em
Oooh, it's a dangerous life boys

  Em         D                    Em
When you're running from the Revenue

  Em         D                    Em
When you're running from the Revenue

     Em                  
And so to escape it came now for Elzevir to pick up the boy

     D          Em
And carry him away

        Am
For he could not walk with a bullet in the leg

          Em                         D       Em
And they made for the safety of the Purbeck cave

        G                    D
T'was there that John would read one night

     Em                     B
The words in the locket by candlelight

         Em           Am               B                   Em
For the Bible verses held the key to Blackbeard's hidden treasure

        D                  Em
At the bottom of a Castle well

C G           D         Em
Oooh, it's a dangerous world boys

C G          D         Em
Oooh, in a smuggler's life

C G           D          Em
Oooh, in the Days of our age boys

  Em              D                      Em
That's where the secret of the treasure lies

  Em              D                      Em
That's where the secret of the treasure lies
C G D Em C G D Em C G D Em
  Em              D                      Em
That's where the secret of the treasure lies

  Em              D                      Em
That's where the secret of the treasure lies
Bm A Bm Bm A Bm F#m Bm F#m Bm
           D
Oh, we're going to be rich boys

      A
The treasure we will find

  Em                    Bm
Blackbeard's bones are dancing here tonight

            Bm                          A               Bm
Yes, we're going to be rich boys, the treasure we will find

    Bm                         A                 Bm
At fourscore feet deep, well, North is where it lies