Intro
F A# F C
[Verse]
F A# F
As the winding path takes me down
A# F
In the dust where the air grows still
A# F A#
Past the shattered sills to where the broken bricks
F C
Lie tossed at the foot of the hill
[Verse]
F A# F
To the gentle hum of the engines far
A# F
And the cry of the birds through the air
A# F A#
With the falling grace of dull light on my face
F C
To the city I vacantly stare
[Verse]
F A# F
Down at these hands that hang by my side
A# F
To the times they have twisted and bowed
A# F A#
For the graft they've done, the thousand tasks been run
F C
To lie still and idle now
[Verse]
F A# F
As a boy I would sit here and whistle my tune
A# F
And watch the world role on by
A# F A#
From the heat of the red-brick factories roar
F C
The smoke spun soft in the sky
[Instrumental]
F C F A# F C F
[Verse]
F A# F
My boyhood dreaming waned as I grew
A# F
No more watching the race from afar
A# F A#
With steel-toe boots and a coarse boiler-suit
F C
A# lad amidst the furnaces scars
[Verse]
F A# F
I learned my trade, how I listened and watched
A# F
I worked as hard as hard can be
A# F A#
But with passing years I grew proud with hope
F C
Of a future that was never to be
[Verse]
F A# F
Late in the day as the Autumn turned pale
A# F
A# figure watched us work from the door
A# F A#
Into burning air his words spoke clear
F C
In a haze our jobs were no more
[Verse]
F A# F
I awoke each morning, days stretched into nights
A# F
And I lurched through a hollow routine
A# F A#
In the queues each week with companions I'd stand
F C
But our fortunes had turned on our dreams
[Verse]
F A# F
For two sons and a daughter we had to provide
A# F
My wife worked long into the nights
A# F A#
To escape the stale air of a room with four walls
F C
I skimmed stones at the quarry till light
[Verse]
F A# F
In the years that followed things picked up and shone
A# F
And I hustled a job where I could
A# F A#
Re-skilled and re-tooled with a home of our own
F C
In a strange shifting world we were stood
[Verse]
F A# F
As time wore on our children grew tall
A# F
And I taught them all that I'd learned
A# F A#
In and out of trouble, the same as their dad
F C
Dodging cops, running streets at Pikes turn
[Verse]
F A# F
As some strangers say, we've carved our own way
A# F
In a world that still lists and turns
A# F A#
But once again there's no work for the young in this town
F C
And the queues form in air that still burns
[Verse]
F A# F
With the dusk tales said, as the evening light ebbs
A# F
My son walks off into the night
A# F A#
With only dull flapping wings of the last bird that sings
F C
He skims stones at the quarry till light
- 1. Chord Gitar Ewan McLennan - The Last Bird To Sing Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar B)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Ewan McLennan - The Last Bird To Sing Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar B)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan