The Last Ship Chords by Sting

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It's all there in the [D] _
gospels, [Am] the Magdalene [B] girl comes to [Am] pay her respects
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[C] But her mind is a [D] whirl when she [E] finds the tomb [Bm]
empty
The [Em] shorn had been [Bm] rolled, not a [Am] sign of a [G] corpse _
[C] In the dark and [D] the cold, when [Am] she reaches the door _
Sees an unholy sight, _ [D] there's this solitary figure
In a [B] hail of light, _ he [Em] just carries on floating _ past [C] Calvary Hill _ _
[D] And in all mighty hurry, I butchered [B] might catch him still _
_ [Am] Tell me where are you going [D] Lord and why in such _ haste?
Thou don't [B] hinder me one, _ _ _ [Em] I've no time to waste
For [Am] they're launching a boat on the [D] morrow at noon _
_ [B] And I have to be there before [Em] daybreak, _ _ _ oh [Am] what can I be missing? _
_ [A] The lads'll expect me, [D] why else would the good Lord [B] himself
_ Resurrect me for [Em] nothing'll stop me, I have to prevail
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Through [D] the teeth of this tempest, in the [B] mouth of a gale
May the [C] _ angels protect me, if all else [D] should fail
And the [C] last _
[Bm] _ ship [E] _ sails
[Bm] Oh, the [C] roar of the chains and the cracking of [D] timbers
_ [Am] The noise at [Bm] the end of the [C]
world in your [D] ears
As [C] a mountain of steel makes its way to [D] the sea
And [C] the last [Bm] _ ship [E] _
_ _ _ [Em] sails _
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_ _ [Cm] _ It's a [F] strange kind [Cm] of beauty, [A#m] it's cold in us [Cm] here
And [A#m] whatever [Cm] it was that [C#] you've done to be [D#] here
It's [F] the sum of your [A#] hopes, your despairs [Fm] and your fears
[C#] And the last [Cm] _ [F] ship _ sails
_ Well, [A#m] the first to arrive saw [A#] these signs in the east
Like that [B]
strange moving finger [Bm] at _ [C#m] Balthazar's east
Where [F#] they asked the _ advice of [Bm] some wandering [C#m] priest
And [Bm] the sad ghosts of [C#m] men whom [D] they'd thought long [E] deceased
[F#] And whatever got [C#m] said, they'd [Bm] be counted at [C#m] least
_ [D] And the _ [C#m] last _ ship [F#] _ sails
[A] _ Oh, the [D] roar [Bm] of the chains and the cracking of [E] timbers
The [Bm] noise at [C#m] the end of the [D] world in your [E] ears
[Bm] As a mountain of steel makes its way to the [E] sea
And [D] the last [C#m] _
ship [F#] _ sails
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And [D] _ whatever you've [Bm] promised, whatever you've [E] done
And [Bm] whatever [C#m] the station in [D] life you've [E] become
In [Bm] the name of the Father, in the name of [E] the Son
And [Bm] whatever _ [C#m] the weave of this [Bm] life that you've [C#m]
spun
One [Bm] day you're far in [F#m]
heaven, _ [E] or under the sun
_ [D] When the _ _ [C#m] last _ ship _ [F#] _
sails _ _ _ _
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