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Em7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7It's all there in the gospels, the Magdalene girl
Am7 Bm7 C DComes to pay her respects, but her mind is awhirl
Em7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7When she finds the tomb empty, the stone had been rolled,
Am7 Bm7 C DNot a sign of a corpse in the dark and the cold.
CWhen she reaches the door, sees an unholy sight,
D B7There's this solitary figure in a halo of light
Em CHe just carries on floating past Calvary Hill,
D B7In an almighty hurry, aye but she might catch him still.
Am7 D"Tell me where are ye going Lord, and why in such haste?"
B7 Em"Now don't hinder me woman, I've no time to waste!”
Am7 DFor they're launching a boat on the morrow at noon,
B7 EmAnd I have to be there before daybreak.
C AOh I canna be missing, the lads'll expect me,
D B7Why else would the good Lord himself resurrect me?
Em CFor nothing will stop me, I have to prevail,
D B7Through the teeth of this tempest, in the mouth of a gale.
C Am7 DMay the angels protect me, if all else should fail,
C Bm7 Em DWhen the last ship sails.
C Am DOh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
Am Bm7 C DThe noise at the end of the world in your ears,
C Am7 DAs a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
C Bm7 EmAnd the last ship sails.
C A/C# Bb/D C# Ab/C
Fm7 Cm7It's a strange kind of beauty,
Bbm7 Cm7It's cold and austere,
Bbm7 Cm7 Db EbAnd whatever it was that ye've done to be here,
Fm Cm7 Bbm7 Cm7It's the sum of yr hopes yr despairs and yr fears,
Db Cm7 Fm7 EbWhen the last ship sails.
Db BbWell the first to arrive saw these signs in the east,
B Bm C#m7Like that strange moving finger at Balthazar's Feast,
F# C#m7 Bm7 C#m7Where they asked the advice of some wandering priest,
Bm7 C#m7 D EAnd the sad ghosts of men whom they'd thought long deceased,
F#m7 C#m7 Bm7 C#m7And whatever got said, they'd be counted at least,
D C#m7 F#m EWhen the last ship sails.
D Bm7 C#m7Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
Bm7 C#m7 D EThe noise at the end of the world in your ears,
D Bm7 C#m7As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
D C#m7 F#m EAnd the last ship sails.
D Bm C#m7And whatever you'd promised, whatever you've done,
Bm7 C#m7 D EAnd whatever the station in life you've become
D Bm EIn the name of the Father, in the name of the Son,
D E Bm7 C#m7And whatever the weave of this life that you've spun,
Bm7 A EOn the Earth or in Heaven or under the Sun,
D C#m7 F#mWhen the last ship sails.
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