Kate Rusby – Halt The Wagons (Guitar)

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As recorded by Kate Rusby (From the 2019 Album PHILOSOPHERS, POETS & KINGS) [Intro] C G Am F C Am F [Verse 1]
G                     F C
Stop now and halt the wagons

C
It's too much for me to bear

   G           F
To see my baby sleeping

                  C
In the cart lying there

C
Oh, take me Lord and keep me

                      G
Please don't leave me here

                  F
For I cannot keep breathing

         G      C
He's all I held dear
[Chorus]
                    G
Oh, hush now, don't cry

       F            C
As you hear my lullaby

                G
Hush now, don't cry

       F            C  G  Am  F
As you hear my lullaby
[Verse 2]
         G                     F
From the black horse there was silence

C                      G
As the storm raged up above

                     F  C
So desperate was the tempest

   F             G C
To steal the one I love

           F         C
Oh, nature sick with vengeance

                   G
As we carve up her tongue

                 C    F C
Tiny arms around each other

    F         C
Her work here done
[Chorus]
                    G
Oh, hush now, don't cry

       F            C
As you hear my lullaby

                G
Hush now, don't cry

       F            C
As you hear my lullaby
[Instrumental Break] G Am F C G C G C G Am F C G C [Verse 3]
G                F
Children are the future

    C
And children are a gift

              G               F
But these are children of the darkness

                   C
With a twelve-hour shift

C
So take him Lord, be gentle

                      G
With his tired, weary bones

                        F   C
Now I'm a mother of the darkness

      F     G    C
He'll never come home
[Verse 4]
       G               F C
Oh, we do not mine for riches

                        G
And we do not mine from love

              C        F    C
But merely to keep the food on

    F       C
Our tables above

               F  C
So I'll dry up my tears now

                    G
Keep his soul in my heart

                F C
And call up the wagons

       F          G   C
So the next shift can start
[Chorus]
                    G
Oh, hush now, don't cry

       F            C   D
As you hear my lullaby

C               G
Hush now, don't cry

       F       G    Am
As you hear my lullaby

       F       G    C
Please hear my lullaby
[Outro]
G       F        G       C
Hear my lullaby, hear my lullaby

G       F        G       C
Hear my lullaby, hear my lullaby

G       F        G       C
Hear my lullaby, hear my lullaby

G       F        G       C
Hear my lullaby, hear my lullaby