Chords for Martyn Joseph – Albert’s Place (Radio 2’s 21st Century Folk)

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_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [E] With head bowed low she [A] walks on through her city
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[E] Rain seeps through the only [A] coat she [B] owns _ _
[Em] But on High Street [A] West there's a [E] place, _ [A]
a [E] place she knows
Some _ _ _ _ _ days it won't take [A] much at all
[B] _ _ [E] You can fall just [A] a semitone
[B] _ _ [Em] _ But it's [A] enough to make you fold and [B] break [E] your soul
_ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] And Albert's [B] Place has seen it [Em] all
_ _ [A] The meat and coal when the [Em] big ships call
_ [A] _ But maybe now it's [Em] greatest, day of all
[A] Brings tea [E] and [C#m] a cup of love
_ [A] Tea _ [B]
and a cup [E] of love
[A] And _ [E] _ _
_ _ you see the [A] pensioner and the veteran _
[B] The [E] unemployed, the homeless [A] and the lost
[B] _ [E] The confused, [A] misused, refused, _
_ [B] gathered [E] here
Don't _ _ _ _ _ _ you be surprised at [A] who's beside [B] you
_ _ [Em] A business man just wants to [A] feed his [Em] kids
_ _ _ A nurse [A] ashamed to cross that line
[B] But arms [E] welcome her
And [A] _ [Em] _ _ _ [A] _ Albert's Place has [Em] seen it all
The [A] _ meat and coal when [E] the big ships call
_ [A] _ But maybe now it's [E] greatest, day of [C#] all
[A] Brings [E] tea and [C#m] a cup of love
_ [A] Tea [B] _
[E] and a cup of love
[A] _ _ _
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ [E] _ It's tattooed across his [A]
forearm
[B] It's _ [E] _ a promise set [A] in skin
[B] _ _ _ [Em] The days that tried to [A] destroy him
But [B] Albert [E] let him in _
[A] Room [Em] at the end
[A] And [Em] the measure of a country's prosperity
Is [A] _ not the wealth it [B] holds
[E] But _ [A] _ in the absence of [E] poverty
An [C#] equal opportunity [A] _ [E] for _ [C#m] all
_ _ [A] And Albert's Place has [E] seen it all
[C#] The [A] _ meat and coal when the [E] big ships call
[A] But maybe now [E] it's greatest, moment of all
[A] Brings tea [B] and a [C#m] cup of [Em] love
_ [A] _ [E] Clothes and [C#m] a cup of love
_ [A] Shelter and [E] furniture and [C#] a cup of love
_ _ [A] Humanity and _ [E] _ _ _ a cup of [A] love
_ Head [F#m] _ _ [Em] _
bowed low she walks [A] on through her city
[B] _ _ [E]
Rain seeps [A] through that only coat she [B] owns
_ [E]
But on High Street West there's a [A] place
_ [B] There's a place [E] she knows
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_ Thank you.
No, it just means, you just recognise it as part of the work we do.
Songs take time to see, Pippa.
It's beautiful.
It does a lot.
Honestly, I couldn't have asked for better.
Incredible.
Thank you.
I'm very happy.
So California to Sunderland.
California to Sunderland, there you go.
Rock and roll. _
Rock and roll and mush.
Lump of mush.
Oh my gosh, it was so, no it's lovely.
It sums everything up and more than I would hope you'd put into a song. _
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