Misc Traditional – Laxey Wheel Song (Guitar)

G                               D
When Laxey was a mining village many years ago,

D                       G
There were 600 miners working under Captain Rowe

C                               G
But The bottom of the mineshaft was below the water line

   D                                   G
So they had to build a wheel to pump the water from the mine.

G
And the Laxey Wheel keeps turning, turning, turning,

                        D
In Lady Isabella's memory,

C
And while the water flows

G                       Em
The Laxey Wheel still goes

A                    D                  G
And the Laxey river runs down to the sea.

G                                               D
For three quarters of a century there were fortunes lost and found

D                               G
As miners dug the lead and zinc from underneath the ground,

C                       G
Then came a great depression in 1929

D                                   G
And the miners drew their wages for the last time at the mine.

G
And the Laxey Wheel keeps turning, turning, turning,

                        D
In Lady Isabella's memory,

C
And while the water flows

G                       Em
The Laxey Wheel still goes

A                    D                  G
And the Laxey river runs down to the sea.

G                               D
It's stood now for a 100 years through wind, snow, rain and drought,

D                       G
And it will keep on turning till the sands of time run out,

C                               G
And though the main mine building is no more than a shell

D                                   G
The Wheel still stands majestic in the shadow of Snaefell.

G
And the Laxey Wheel keeps turning, turning, turning,

                        D
In Lady Isabella's memory,

C
And while the water flows

G                       Em
The Laxey Wheel still goes

A                    D                  G
And the Laxey river runs down to the sea.