Make And Break Harbour Cifras

Capo 2nd fret, key of D
 
[Intro]
C  C/G  C  C/G
 
[Verse 1]
      C             Am         F                G
How still lies the bay in the light western airs
        Dm            F        G
Which blow from the crimson horizon
      C                         F        G
Once more we tack home with a dry empty hold
        Dm            F         G
Saving gas with the breezes so fair
         C          Am        F               G
She's a kindly Cape Islander, old, but still sound
        Dm          F            G
But so lost in the longliner's shadow
           C                          F
Make and break, and make do, but the fish are so few
         G            F                C
That she won't be replaced should she founder
 
[Verse 2]
         C            Am        F            G
It's so hard to not think of before the big war
          Dm           F            G
When the cod were so cheap and so plenty
          C                      F          G
Foreign trawlers go by now with long-seeing eyes
       Dm             F          G
Taking all, where we seldom take any
         C                 Am           F           G
And the young folk don't stay with the fisherman's way
       Dm           F            G
Long ago, they all moved to the cities
        C                       F
And the ones left behind, old, tired, and blind
       G           F          C
Can't work for "a pound or a penny".
 
[Chorus]
    F              G           C
In Make and Break Harbour the boats are so few
     Am       G             F      G
Too many are pulled up and rotten
      C           Am          C               F
Most houses stand empty, old nets hung to dry
      G          F           C
Are blown away, lost and forgotten.
 
[Instrumental]
C Am C F G F C
 
[Verse 3]
           C            Am            F             G
Now I can see the big draggers have stirred up the bay
         Dm             F             G
Leaving lobster traps smashed on the bottom
           C                       F            G
Can they think it don't pay to respect the old ways
      Dm             F               G
That Make and Break men have not forgotton?
         C             Am          F              G
For we still keep our time to the turn of the tide
          Dm          F              G
And this boat that I built with my father
       C                         F
Still lifts to the sky! The one lunger and I
       G              F             C
Still talk like old friends on the water.
 
[Chorus]
    F              G           C
In Make and Break Harbour the boats are so few
     Am       G             F      G
Too many are pulled up and rotten
      C           Am          C               F
Most houses stand empty, old nets hung to dry
     G           F           C
Are blown away, lost and forgotten.
 
    F              G           C
In Make and Break Harbour the boats are so few
     Am       G             F      G
Too many are pulled up and rotten
      C           Am          C               F
Most houses stand empty, old nets hung to dry
     G           F           C
Are blown away, lost and forgotten.
 
[Outro]
C Am C F G F C
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