Wednesday, February 22, 2017

O Chords, Chords, Chords

Now I'm writing out the chords of every song. It's hard, hard, hard.
I wish I had written them all in just three major chords, but then they would sound different and I wouldn't sing 'em. The typeface is Bembo, which is an old-fashioned typeface that was my favourite when I worked in Lewes in Sussex as a typesetter for veterinary tablet envelopes, using old lead type and spacings, and setting the letters one by one before printing them on a massive Heidelberg letterpress machine. Offsprog One showed me how to download it from the internet. It has a lovely open look to it without looking like a children's book typeface.
This is what I'm doing:
Em7                       F#m7          Bm7
Green, green sea that kisses the horizon,
      Am                   Em         F#m7    Bm7
The crescent and the cross walk hand in hand.
Em7                   F#m7       Bm7
Blue, blue skies to feast your eyes on
      Am                Em          F#m7    Bm7 Em7
The wonders of the world are sketched in sand.

Em7                     F#m7 Bm7
Lie down lie let the sun caress you,
Am              Em             F#m7         Bm7
People of the world, in the heart of the beast.
Em7         F#m7     Bm7
Holiday to calm and rest you
Am                  Em            F#m7 Bm7 Em7
What could ever drown your sleep in peace?

      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea,
      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea,
      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea,
      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea.

Em7                       F#m7          Bm7
Green, green sea that kisses the horizon,
      Am                   Em         F#m7    Bm7
The crescent and the cross walk hand in hand.
Em7                   F#m7       Bm7
Blue, blue skies to feast your eyes on
      Am                Em          F#m7    Bm7 Em7
The wonders of the world are sketched in sand.

  Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea,
      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea,
      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea,
      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea.

A7
The crescent and the cross walk hand in hand
                       Em
Hand in hand in hand.
A7
Take a souvenir from the contraband
                     F#m7 Bm7
Of this promised land;

      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea,
      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea,
      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea,
      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
The sea.

Em7                   F#m7      Bm7
Fight man fight to get to the shore
      Am                Em           F#m7    Bm7
The crashing of the waves, the battling swell;
Em7                     F#m7     Bm7
Bursting boats can’t take any more
             Am                 Em          F#m7 Bm7    Em7
While the monsters in the deckchairs curse you to hell.
      Em7 F#m7 Bm7
“Go home!
     Em7 F#m7 Bm7
Go home!
     Em7 F#m7 Bm7
Go home to your war
Em7 F#m7 Bm7
zone!”

Em7                       F#m7          Bm7
Green, green sea that kisses the horizon,
      Am                   Em         F#m7    Bm7
The crescent and the cross walk hand in hand.
Em7                   F#m7       Bm7
Blue, blue skies to feast your eyes on
      Am                Em          F#m7    Bm7 Em7

The wonders of the world are sketched in sand.
Copyright Helen McCookerybook, 2017

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