Chords for Christy Moore & Sinead O'Connor sweet thames flow softly

[C#] _ _ _ _ _ I met my [G#] love near Woolwich Pier _ [C#] Beneath [F#] the big crane [G#] stand
_ _ [C#] All the love [G#] I felt for her [C#] It [G#] passed all _ [C#] _ understand
_ Took her [F#] sailing on the river [C#] Flung, sweet, her river [G#] flung
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London town was [F#] mine to give her [C#]
[G#] Sweet Thames flow [F#] _ [C#] softly _ _
[G#] Made the Thames into a crown [F#] _ [C#] Flowed, sweet, [G#] her river flung
_ Made a broach of silver town [F#] Sweet [C#] Thames flow [G#] _ [C#] softly _
From _ _ _ _ Shadwell Dock [G#] to Nine Elms Reach [C#] We [F#] cheek, [G#] cheek were dancing
_ [C#] Her necklace [G#] made of London bridge [C#] Her beauty [G#] _
[C#] was enhancing
_ _ _ Kissed her once [F#] again a whopping [C#] Flow, _ sweet, [G#] river flung
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After that [F#] there was no stopping [C#] _ _
[G#] Sweet Thames flow _ [C#] softly _
[G#] I gave her Hampton Court to twist [F#] Flow, [C#] sweet, [G#] river flung
Into a bracelet for her wrist [F#] Sweet [C#] [G#] Thames flow [C#] softly _
_ _ _ _ _ _ From [F#] [C#] Roderick [G#] to Putney Bridge [C#] My love [F#] I was [G#] declaring
_ [C#] And she from Kew [G#] to Isleworth [C#] Her [G#] love to me [C#] was swearing
_ _ Love it set my [F#] heart a burning [C#] Flow, [G#] sweet, river flung
I [C#] never _ saw [F#] a tide was turning [C#] Sweet _ [G#] Thames flow [C#] _ softly _
_ [G#] Limehouse _ Reach I gave her bare [F#] Flow, _ [C#] sweet, [G#] river flung
As a ribbon for her hair _ [F#] Sweet [C#] Thames flow [G#] _
[C#] softly
_ But _ _ _ _ now [G#] alas the tide has changed [C#] My love [F#] she has [G#] gone from me _
[C#] _ Winter's [G#] frost has touched my heart [C#] And [G#] put a blight [C#] upon me _
_ Creeping fog is [F#] on the river [G#] Flow, sweet, river flow _
_ _ [C#] Sun and moon [F#] and stars come with her [C#] Sweet [G#] Thames flow [C#] softly
_ _ [G#] Swift _ attempts flows to the sea [C#] Flow, sweet, [G#] river flow
_ Bearing ships and part of me [F#] Sweet [C#] [G#] Thames flow _ [C#] softly _ _ _ _
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