Make And Break Harbour Chords by Stan Rogers

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_ _ _ _ How still lies [Bm] the bay [G] in the light western [A] airs,
Which [Em] blow from [G] the crimson [A] horizon.
_ [G] _ [A] _ [D] Once more we tack home [G] with a dry [A] empty hold,
[Em] Saving gas [G] with the breezes so [A] fair.
_ _ _ [D] She's a kindly [Bm] Cape _ [G] Islander, old [D] but still [A] sound,
[Em] But so lost [G] in the long _ [A] liner's shadow.
_ _ [D] Make and break and make do, [G] but the fish are so few,
_ [A] That she won't be [G] replaced should [D] she find her.
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_ It's so hard [Bm] to not think [G] of before the [A] big war,
[Em] When the cod went [G] so cheap, but [A] so plenty. _
_ [D] Foreign trawlers go by now [G] with long seeing [A] eyes,
They [Em] came all [G] where we seldom _ [A] take any.
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[A] _ [D] And the young folk [Bm] don't stay [G] with the [A] fishermen's way,
[Em] Long ago they [G] all moved to [A] the cities. _
_ [D] And the ones left behind, [G] old and tired and blind,
[A] Can't work for [G] a pound, [D] for a penny. _ _
_ [G] In make and [A] break harbor [D] the boughs are so few,
[Bm] Too many [A] are pulled [G] up and rotten.
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_ [D] Most houses [Bm] stand empty, [D] old nets hung [G] to dry,
[A] Are blown away, [G]
lost [D] and forgotten. _ _
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Now I can see the [Bm] big draggers [G] have stirred up the [A] bay,
_ [Em] Leaving lobster [G] traps smashed on [A] the bottom. _ _
_ [D] And they think it don't pay [G] to respect the [A] old ways,
[Em] That make [Bm] and [G] break men have [A] not forgotten. _ _
[D] For we still keep [Bm] our time to [G] the turn of the [A] tide,
And [Em] this boat that [G] I built with [A] my father,
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_ [A] [D] Still lifts to the sky, _ [G] one longer,
And I [A] still talk like [G] old friends [D] on water. _
_ [G] In make and [A] break harbor [D] the boughs are so few,
[Bm] Too many [A] are pulled up [G] and rotten.
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_ [D] Most houses [Bm] stand empty, old [D] nets hung [G] to dry,
[A] Are blown away, [G]
lost [D] and forgotten. _ _
[Am] _ [D] [G] In make and [A] break harbor [D] the boughs are so few,
[Bm] Too many [A] are pulled [G] up and rotten.
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_ [D] Most houses [Bm] stand empty, [D] old nets hung [G] to dry,
[A] Are blown away, [G]
lost and [D] forgotten. _
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