Frank Turner – Wessex Boy (Ukulele)

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Chords and tab by Neil Wicker [email protected] please rate this, I really appreciate it. intro: C, C, C, C, Am, C x2 specific chords to play melody as well: (watch here for rhythm -

    C     C
e|--2--2--3--0--0--|
B|--3--0--3--3--3--|
G|--2--2--0--0--0--|
D|--------0--4--2--|
A|--------2--2--0--|
E|--------3--3--3--|

C                                                      C
Let me tell you all a little story of the things I've found,

C                                                            C
Hanging out and drinking with my friends in the cathedral grounds,

C                                                  C
And later dodging drunks as we dance along Jewry Street,

C                                                  C        
As we wander up town to the railway our friends to meet,

        C                               Am7
There's something about coming back to your hometown again,

     C                                                  
The place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends,

           C                                 Am7
And though none of them still live here, I've got nowhere to go,

      C                                 C
I'm a Wessex Boy and when I'm here I'm home

Melody: (or on one guitar repeat the intro x2)
e|--10--7-----------------|
B|----------10--7--5--3---|
G|------------------------|  x4
D|------------------------|
A|------------------------|
E|------------------------|

C                                                       C
Let me tell you all a little story of the things I've lost,

C                                                  C
Huddling for warmth on the top step of the Buttercross,

  C                                                  C
Sitting on the benches by the bridges at the riverside,

C                                                            C
Of counting down the hours for the buses cause I missed my ride

        C                               Am7
There's something about coming back to your hometown again,

     C                                                  
The place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends,

           C                                  Am7
And though none of them still live here, I've got nowhere to go,

      C                                               Em 
I'm a Wessex Boy, a Wessex boy and when I'm here I'm home

                    C              Am7          C
And one day I will hear this song anonymous and sweet,

        Em           C                   Am7           C     
Ringing out from a buskers guitar on the ancient city streets,

      Em                C              Am7         C               
I'll pause a while and smile before I continue on alone,

     Am7                                   C
And somebody else will sing the words and I'll feel like I'm home

the 0's here are played fast and quietly (you could probably go without them)

e|--10--7---------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------10---------7--5--3---------3---------------7--5-------|
G|--------------(0-0)-----------(0-0)-----4--2---------------7----|
D|----------------------------------------------(0-0)-------------|  x3
A|----------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|

play this or the intro during the ba ba ba's:

e|--10--7-----------------|
B|----------10--7--5--3---|
G|------------------------|  x4
D|------------------------|
A|------------------------|
E|------------------------|

         C                           Am7
There's something about hometowns you never can escape 

     C                                                  
The triumphs and the tragedies, the tawdry little fates 

      C                       Am7
The welling of nostalgia, the feeling kinda strange

       C                                    
Cause despite all the little changes, this place still feels the same 

         C                             Am7
There's something about coming back to your hometown again,

     C                                                  
The place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends,

           C                                 Am7
And though none of them still live here, I've got nowhere to go,

      C                                               C
I'm a Wessex Boy, a Wessex boy and when I'm here I'm home

outro part 1: same as intro

outro part 2:
e|-----------------|
B|--7--5--3--3--3--|
G|-----------------|  x8
D|-----------------|
A|-----------------|
E|-----------------|