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