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