Shanneyganock Great Harbour Deep chords

Great Harbour Deep by Shanneyganock

Written by J.P. Cormier

Capo II

C                            G            C
There's lumber and rusty old nails by the door,
                                F
We'll board up these houses and live here no more;
Fm                       C                Am
And even the gulls won't come up from the shore,
                         G          C
'Cause they know all the people are leavin'.

C                            G           C
There's Tucker and Darcy and Skipper Tom Brown,
                                 F
They pulled up the boat and have battened her down;
Fm                            C            Am
She's just one more soul that fate pushed aground,
             G          C
The ocean's still as a tombstone.

G                               
We'll move to the city, they'll pay for our homes,
C                               
If the town was a body, it would be skin and bones;
G                       
What of the men who lie here in the ground,
C                               F
Who died breathin' life in this town?
Fm                             C            Am
The dreams of our fathers will die in their sleep,
                      G         F             C
When they put out the lights in Great Harbour Deep.

C                            G         C
Things were much better when I was a lad,
                             F
When two workin' hands were all a man had;
Fm                            C             Am
The sea was our mother, she called us from land,
              G           C
But now she seems like a stranger.

C                               G     C
It's funny, they say there's no cod anymore,
                                         F
But you'll find them in restaurants and all the fine stores;
Fm                            C                Am
It's like God told them all, stay far from our shores,
               G             C
The foreigners must need the money.

G                           
So we'll move to the city, they'll pay for our homes,
C                           
If the town was a body, it would be skin and bones;
G                       
What of the men who lie here in the ground,
C                                F
Who died breathin' life in this town?
Fm                              C            Am
The dreams of our fathers will die in their sleep,
                       G        F             C
When they put out the lights in Great Harbour Deep.

D                                       A              D
They're down at the powerhouse, they'll soon throw the switch,
                                  G            
That will send us the darkness as black as the pitch;
Gm                              D        Bm
And some guy up in Ottawa, that son-of-a-bitch,
                A               D
In his own bed tonight he'll be keepin'.

D                               A             D
So I'll say my goodbyes to the rocks and the trees,
                                     G
And I'll walk through this splendour whenever I please;
Gm                                 D         Bm
Though the only way back here will be in my dreams,
                A           D
Ya can't stop a fella from sleepin'.

A                                  
So we'll move to the city, they'll pay for our homes,
D                                
If the town was a body, it would be skin and bones;
A                        
What of the men who lie here in the ground,
D                                G
Who died breathin' life in this town?
Gm                              D            Bm
The dreams of our fathers will die in their sleep,
                       A        G             D
When they put out the lights in Great Harbour Deep.

D                              A         D
Now there stands the city with wide-open arms,
                                    G
And I'm sure now to some, well, she does hold her charms;
Gm                                  D               Bm
There's prostitutes, drug dealers, strip joints and bars,
                        A           D
What a great place for raisin' your children.

A                              
So, we moved to the city, they paid for our homes,
D
After all that old village was just skin and bones;
A   
And we left all those men there, alone in the ground,
D                                G
Who died breathing life in that town;
Gm                            D              Bm
The dreams of our fathers all died in their sleep,
                      A         G             D
When they put out the lights in Great Harbour Deep.

A 
So, we moved to the city, they paid for our homes,
D         
After all that old village was just skin and bones;
A 
And we left all those men there, alone in the ground,
D                                G
Who died breathing life in that town;
Gm                            D              Bm
The dreams of our fathers all died in their sleep,
                      A         G             D
When they put out the lights in Great Harbour Deep.
Gm                             D             Bm
The ocean stands watchin', her vigil she'll keep,
                    A          G             D
She's the only one left now in Great Harbour Deep.