Misc Musicals – Titanic - Barretts Song (Guitar)

      Em                     C
She's sparkling clean, this new-born ship

    Em       C        Em
But one old thing is clear

    Em
The orders they propose above

   Em                    D Em7
We execue down here

      Em                 C
We'll watch from here as up above

        D       G        C
They'll catch a whiff of glory

     F      Em       F        C
This wonder ship may be brand new

    F        Dm       Em
But it's the same old story

          E5
Stoke the fire in the hold

       A5                  E5     G5
as the men draw back

         E5
Feed the heat in the hold

       Am
as the men draw back

        Em
And the dust of the coal

              Am
in the air is black

      Em
And a trickle of sweat

Am             G
runs down your back

    Dm
And what are the boys

         G              Am
from the midlands doing here?

F
Coal it is that makes the steam

     F
That runs the machines that run the world

     F
That sends the men below the ground

   D        F
To mine the coal

F    C        D Am
Each day

     F                  F
From Leicestershire and Nottingham

   F
Us lads who worked down in the pit

     F
Knew if you got above the ground

      D         F
You'd save your soul

Em
Some way

Dm  Dm7
Get out of the pit

    F          Em           C
And westward I knew I could run

Dm  Dm7         C
And ship out to sea

             G            Em
and there my new life was begun

        Dm                    Dm
And the screws are turning at 71

   Am        F                  Em
It became my dream to go out to sea

Am                                     Em
Further out from the mine you couldn't be

    Dm7
But born to the coal,

           F             C
there's no place for you elsewhere

    Am              G
You trade a life of dank and gloom

   Am            G
To shovel in the boiler room

    F
But now you're seven decks below

  D      F      Am
A lady's dainty feet

    Dm7
And nothing has changed

        Am                  C
There's nothing a miner can do

    Dm7
The pit and your mates

       Gm7                   Em7
Turned into the hold and the crew

        Dm
And the screws are turnin at 72

Dm7        G         Dm7
Faster and faster we watch

      G         C
as we gain ever more

Dm7     G             Dm7
Seventy three and too soon

      G       Em
it is Seventy Four

      Dm7                        F
For a record speed, I believe we strive!

        Dm
For the maiden ship

       Dm
that's too hard to drive

       Em                           C
If you push her faster than Seventy Five

     D      Am
That is the truth

  Am
I swear!