Mark Knopfler – So Far From The Clyde (Ukulele)

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      Am
They had a last supper

     G          Am       Am
The day of the Beaching

         Am                C
She's a dead ship sailing

  Em           Em
Skeleton Crew

     F
The galley is empty

      C             Am      Am  Am  F
The stove pots are cooling

                          Am  Asus4
With what's left of the stew

     Am
The time is approaching

     G            Am    Am
The captain moves over

     Am               C
The hangman steps in

        Em                Em
To do what he's paid for

          F
With the wind down the tide

           C           Am      Am
She goes proud ahead steaming

         F                        Am   Am 
And he drives her hard into the shore

 C  Em            F    F
So far from the Clyde

             Dm   Dm
Together we ride

        F    F
We did ride
| Am | Am | Am | Am | | Am | Am | Am | Am | | Am | Am |
   Am
As if to a wave

          G           Am     Am
From her bows to her rudder

  Am         C        Em                 Em
Bravely she rises to meet with the land

F                          C              Am     Am
Under their feet they all feel her keel shatter

      F                       Am    Am
The shallow see washes their hands
| Am | (Am) | G/B | (G/B) | | Am/C | (Am/C) | G | (G) | | G | F | (F) | (F) | (F) | | Am | (Am) | (Am) | (Am) |
 Am
Later the captain

        G              Am      Am
Shakes hands with the hangman

      Am           C
And climbs slowly down

       Em               Em
To the oily wet ground

       F                        C            Am       Am
Goes 'bout to the car that has come here to take him

         F                        Am   Am
To the graveyard and back to the town

 C  Em            F    F
So far from the Clyde

             Dm   Dm
Together we ride

        F    F
We did ride
| Am | Am | Am | Am |
      Am
They pull out her cables

     G            Am      Am
And hack off her hatches

     Am              C        Em           Em
Too poor to be wasteful with pity or time

       F                        C          Am    Am
They swarm on her carcass with torches and axes

         F                       Am   Am
Like a whale on the bloody shoreline

   Am
Stripped of her pillars

      G             Am 
Her stays and her stantions

             Am        C            Em              Em 
When there's only her bones on the wet poison land

  F                             C          Am       Am
Steel ropes will drag her with winches and engines

          F                    Am   Am
'Til it's only a stain on the sand

 C  Em            F    F
So far from the Clyde

             Dm   Dm
Together we ride

        F    F/E  Dsus2  Dsus2/A 
We did ride

 C  Em            F    F
So far from the Clyde

             Dm   Dm
Together we ride

        F    F
We did ride
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