Intro
[Fadd2] [Ab] [Fadd2] [AbM7] [Fadd2] [Fadd2]
Verse 1
N.C. [F] [C7] [F]
There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbour
[Bb6]
and tomorrow for ol' England she sails
far away from your land of endless sunshine
[Gm] [C]
to my land full of rainy skies and gales
[F] [C7] [F]
and I shall be on board that ship tomorrow
[F7/A] [Bb6]
though my heart is full of tears at this farewell
Chorus
[Gm] [C7] [Am7] [Dm7] [Gm7] [C7]
For you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly
[Gm7] [C7] [F] [Dm7]
more dearly than the spoken word can tell
[Gm7] [C7] [Am] [Dm7] [Bb] [C7]
for you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly
[Gm7] [C7] [F] [Cm7] [F6] [Cm7] [Fadd2]
more dearly than the spoken word can tell
Verse 2
[F] [C7] [F]
I heard there's a wicked war a-blazing
[Bb6]
and the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see that foreign flag a-raising
[Gm] [C]
their guns on fire as we sailed into hell
[F] [C7] [F]
I have no fear of death it brings no sorrow
[F7/A] [Bb6]
but how bitter will be this last farewell
Chorus
[Gm] [C7] [Am7] [Dm] [Gm7] [C7]
For you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly
[Gm7] [C7] [F] [Dm7]
more dearly than the spoken word can tell
[Gm7] [C7] [Am] [Dm7] [Bb] [C7]
for you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly
[Gm7] [C7] [F] [Cm7] [F6] [Cm7] [Fadd2]
more dearly than the spoken word can tell
Verse 3
[F] [C7] [F]
Though death and darkness gather all about me
[Bb6]
and my ship be torn apart upon the seas,
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
[Gm] [C]
in the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
[F] [C7] [F]
I return safe home again to England
[F7/A] [Bb6]
I shall watch the English mist roll through the dell
[[Chorus]
[Gm] [C7] [Am7] [Dm] [Gm7] [C7]
For you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly
[Gm7] [C7] [F] [Dm7]
more dearly than the spoken word can tell
[Gm7] [C7] [Am] [Dm7] [Bb] [C7]
for you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly
[Gm7] [C7] [Fadd2] [Ab] [Fadd2] [AM7] [Ebadd2]
more dearly than the spoken word can tell
