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