Make And Break Harbour Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse i

 HDow still lies thBme bay, in theG light western Aairs

 WEmhich blow from Gthe crimsonA horizon

 ODnce more we taD7ck home, with Ga dry emptyA hole

 SEmaving nets withG the breezesA so fair

 SDhe's a kindlyBm cape islanGder, old but stAill sound

 BEmut so lost inG the long linAers shadow

 MDake and Break anD7d make do, buGt the fish arAe so few

 TEmhat she won'Gt be replaced shoulDd she flounder

Verse ii

Now its so hard to not think of before the big war

When the cod went so cheap, but so plenty

Foreign trawlers go by now with long seeking eyes

Taking all where we seldom take any

And the young folk don't stay with the fisherman's ways

Long ago they all moved to the cities

And the ones left behind old and tired and blind

Won't work for a pound, for a penny.

Chorus

 IGn Make and BreakA Harbour the Dboats are so few

 TBmoo many arAe hold up andG rotten. A

 MDost towns staBmnd empty olDd nets hung toG dry

 AAre blown awaGy lost andD forgotten

Verse iii

Now I can see the big draggers that stirred up the bay

Leaving lobster traps smashed on the bottom

And they think it don't pay to respect the old ways

That make and break men have not forgotten

For we still keep our time to the turn of the tide

In this boat that I built with my father

Still lifts to the sky, "wan loller" and I

Still talk like old friends on the water