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Manuscript
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This one was chorded by Adrian Vranch and me...and you (since you asked Al what
the very last chord of the chorus was!). Chord with an * are given at the end
of the song.


Intro

  D D D   D D D G ---Manuscript theme---

|-2-2-2--2-2-2--3-3-3-p-2-h-3-p-2-h-0--0-|
|-3-3-3--3-3-3--0-0-0---0---0---0---0--0-|
|-2-2-2--2-2-2--0-0-0---0---0---0---0--0-|
|-0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0---0---0---0---0--0-|
|---------------2------------------------|
|---------------3------------------------| Then into D then verse ...


Verse

D                          Am                    G
Prince Louis Battenberg is burning the admiralty lights down low
D                        A                    G    *theme*
Silently sifting through papers sealed with a crown
    D                      Am                        G
And Admiral Lord Fisher is writing to Churchill, and calling for
     D                           A                      G    *theme*
More dreadnoughts: the houses in Hackney are all falling down.


Chorus

       D                       A
And my Grandmother sits on the beach
                       D
In the days before the war
  F*
A young girl writing her diary
      G*
While time seems to pause
A#*
Watching the waves as they come one by one
              F*
To die on the shore
            A#*    Gm*  A
Kissing the feet
Eb/D*  D
Of England.


The last chorus has two extra lines:

    D                     A
And Mandi and I stood and stared
                D
At the overcast sky
      F*
Where ten years ago we had stood
                   G*
My Grandfather and I
        A#*
And the waves still rushed in as they had
                   F*
On the day that he died
       A#*
And it seemed that my lifetime
                          F*
Was shrunken and lost in the tide

As it rose and fell
       A#*    Gm*  A
On the side
Eb/D*  D
Of England


A#*: xxx10/11/10
F*: xxx565
G*: xxx787
Gm*: 003330
Eb/D*: xx0343