Halt The Wagons
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: DbCapotraste:
1st traste
As recorded by Kate Rusby
(From the 2019 Album PHILOSOPHERS, POETS & KINGS)
Capo 1st fret
[Intro]
C G Am F C Am F
[Verse 1]
G F C
Stop now and halt the wagons
C
It's too much for me to bear
G F
To see my baby sleeping
C
In the cart lying there
C
Oh, take me Lord and keep me
G
Please don't leave me here
F
For I cannot keep breathing
G C
He's all I held dear
[Chorus]
G
Oh, hush now, don't cry
F C
As you hear my lullaby
G
Hush now, don't cry
F C G Am F
As you hear my lullaby
[Verse 2]
G F
From the black horse there was silence
C G
As the storm raged up above
F C
So desperate was the tempest
F G C
To steal the one I love
F C
Oh, nature sick with vengeance
G
As we carve up her tongue
C F C
Tiny arms around each other
F C
Her work here done
[Chorus]
G
Oh, hush now, don't cry
F C
As you hear my lullaby
G
Hush now, don't cry
F C
As you hear my lullaby
[Instrumental Break]
G Am F C G C
G C G Am F C
G C
[Verse 3]
G F
Children are the future
C
And children are a gift
G F
But these are children of the darkness
C
With a twelve-hour shift
C
So take him Lord, be gentle
G
With his tired, weary bones
F C
Now I'm a mother of the darkness
F G C
He'll never come home
[Verse 4]
G F C
Oh, we do not mine for riches
G
And we do not mine from love
C F C
But merely to keep the food on
F C
Our tables above
F C
So I'll dry up my tears now
G
Keep his soul in my heart
F C
And call up the wagons
F G C
So the next shift can start
[Chorus]
G
Oh, hush now, don't cry
F C D
As you hear my lullaby
C G
Hush now, don't cry
F G Am
As you hear my lullaby
F G C
Please hear my lullaby
[Outro]
G F G C
Hear my lullaby, hear my lullaby
G F G C
Hear my lullaby, hear my lullaby
G F G C
Hear my lullaby, hear my lullaby
G F G C
Hear my lullaby, hear my lullaby
How to play Halt The Wagons
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The first identified chord is E. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
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