Thousands Are Sailing Chords by The Pogues

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_ _ The island it is silent now, but [D] the ghosts still haunt the waves
_ [A] And a torch lights up [F#m]
a famished man, who [Bm] fortune could not [E] save
Did [A] you walk upon the railroad?
_ [D] Did you ride the streets of crime?
_ [A] Were your dollars from [F#m] the White House?
Were [E] they from the Five [A] and Dime?
Did [F#m] the old sands talk to cheer you?
[D] And did they still make you [A] cry?
_ _ [F#m] Did you count the months and years?
Or did your [Bm] tear drops quickly [E] dry?
_ [A] I know for things was not to be [D] on a cabin ship
I came here [A] and I never even [F#m] got so far [E] that they could change [Am] my name
_ _ [F#m] _ [C#m] Thousands are sailing _ [E] across the western [F#m] _ ocean
To a land of [A] opportunity, _ but [E] some of them will [F#m] never see
_ Fortune _ _ prevailing _ [E] across the western [F#m] _ ocean
Their bellies full of whispered spray
[E] They'll break the chains [F#m] of poverty [D] and their plans
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_ _ _ _ _ _ In Manhattan's desert _ twilight, in [D] a tata of afternoon
_ [A] We stepped hand in hand on [F#m] Broadway, _ [D] like the first man on [E] the moon
_ [A] And a blackbird brought the silence, as [D] you whistled it so sweet
And [A] in _ Britain's [F#m] footsteps, I [E] danced up and down [A] the street _
[F#m] Where we said goodnight to Broadway, _ giving [D] it our best [A] regards _
To [F#m] Darth Hatt, to Mr.
Cohen, _ their [Bm] old Times Square's favorite [E] bird
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Then we raised a glass to JFK [D] and a dozen more _ besides _
[A] When I got back to [F#m] my empty room, [E] I suppose I must have [A] cried _
_ [F#m] _ Thousands are sailing _ [E] again across [Bm] the _ ocean
[F#m] To a land of _ [A] opportunity, _ [E] just tickets and [A] a [Bm] _
lettering
[F#m] _ _ Postcards were _ mailing, [E] of skylight skies and [Bm] _
oceans
[F#m] From rooms that fail and never cease
[E] And lights don't glow [F#m] on Christmas _ [D] trees
How fast are the years [F#m] are going fast?
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_ _ [C#m] Thousands are sailing [E] across the Western [F#m] _ Ocean
With a hand of _ [A] opportunity, _ [E] just tickets and [Bm] a _ lettering
[F#m] Where we go we celebrate [E] the land that makes us [Bm] _ _
refugees
[F#m] A fairer place, [A] where everything plays
[E] From guilt and [Bm] weeping and [D] purges
And we dance the years are [F#m] going fast _
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