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Fairport Convention : Unhalfbricking 1969

  1. Genesis Hall
  2. A Sailor's Life

  3. Who Knows Where The Time Goes?

Genesis Hall

Capo:
III
(for the Fairport version)
Bsus2
/f#
/g
/f#
Em7
A
Bm
My father he rides with your sheriffs
Em7
G
A
And I know he would never mean harm
D
G
A
But to see both sides of a quarrel
Em7
Bm
/b
/a
/f#
Is to judge without hate or alarm
D
Em
G
Oh-oh, helpless and slow
D
Em7
Bm
And you don't have anywhere to go You take away homes from the homeless And leave them to die in the cold The gypsy who begged for your presents He will laugh in your face when you're old Oh-oh, helpless and slow And you don't have anywhere to go Well, one man he drinks up his whiskey Another he drinks up his wine And they'll drink till their eyes are red with hate For those of a different kind Oh-oh, helpless and slow And you don't have anywhere to go When the rivers run thicker than trouble I'll be there at your side in the flood It was all I could do to keep myself From taking revenge on your blood Oh-oh, helpless and slow And you don't have anywhere to go Oh-oh, helpless and slow And you don't have anywhere to go

A Sailor's Life

<Trad; Roud 273>
D
C
D
A sailor's life, it is a merry life
D
He robs young girls of their hearts' delight
D
G
Leaving them behind to weep and mourn
D
C
D
They never know when they will return Well, there's four and twenty all in a row My true love he makes the finest show He's proper tall, genteel and all And if I don't have him, I'll have none at all Oh father, build for me a bonny boat That on the wide ocean I may float And every Queen's ship that we pass by There I'll enquire for my sailor boy They had not sailed long on the deep When a Queen's ship they chanced to meet "You sailors all, pray tell me true Does my sweet William sail among your crew?" "Oh no, fair maiden, he is not here For he's been drownded we greatly fear On yon green island as we passed it by There we lost sight of your sailor boy" Well, she wrung her hands and she tore her hair She was like a young girl in great despair And her little boat against a rock did run "How can I live now my sweet William is gone?"

Who Knows Where The Time Goes?

<Sandy Denny>
(Show chord shapes)
F#m11/e 044200 F#m 244222
Badd11 799800 G#m 466444
Emaj7 066400 Am6 x07570
Aadd9 577600 A x07650
E
F#m11/e
x4
E
F#m11/e
Across the evening sky
Emaj7
F#m11/e
All the birds are leaving
E
F#m11/e
But how can they know
Emaj7
F#m11/e
It's time for them to go?
F#m
G#m
Before the winter fire
Am6
G#m
I will still be dreaming
A
E
Esus4
E
/g#
/a
I have no thought of time
Bsus4
Asus2
/c#
/d
For who knows where the time goes?
E
F#m7
A
F#m7
Who knows where the time goes?
E
F#m11/e
x2
Sad deserted shore Your fickle friends are leaving Ah, but then you know It's time for them to go But I will still be here I have no thought of leaving I do not count the time For who knows where the time goes? Who knows where the time goes? And I am not alone While my love is near me I know it will be so Until it's time to go! So come the storms of winter And then the birds of spring again I have no fear of time For who knows how my love grows? And who knows where the time goes?
E
F#m11/e
x5