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Courageous Tree
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Courageous Tree
Mike Turnbull
D G D G
Vse 1. You’ve earned the right to survive a vicious lightning strike
Bm G D G
One side perfect & crisp the other with a blackened twist
On a grey & racing stormy day your roots are reaching far away
To the life of a warm lake shore, stretch the toes of a giant dinosaur
A G A G
Pre Ch. Bursting back into life, set your leaves toward the sky
D G
Ch. Throw your arms around the courageous tree
D G
Show your scars you are the courageous tree
Bm G
And you will triple in height when your leaves are in sight
D G
Throw your arms around the courageous tree
Vse 2. Broken & vertically shattered, inwardly bruised & battered
Beauty & courage deserved of love, there’s room on your branches for everyone
Pre Ch. Bursting back into life, set your leaves towards the sky
Ch. Throw your arms around the courageous tree
Show your scars you are the courageous tree
And you will triple in height when your leaves are in sight
Throw your arms around the courageous tree
Inst… Bm, A, G ///
Quiet ch...
Throw your arms around the courageous tree
Show your scars you are the courageous tree
And you will triple in height when your leaves are in sight
Throw your arms around the courageous tree
Outro ch...
Throw your arms around the courageous tree
Show your scars you are the courageous tree
And you will triple in height when your leaves are in sight
Throw your arms around the courageous tree
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Sea Charts & Life Maps
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Sea charts & Life maps
G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7
I started out with an empty lap, sea charts & a life map
C D G Gmaj7
And here I am, I can’t fold it back
I started out with a clean slate, chalk in my hand & a world that waits
And here I am, I know the way
Em C
The earth may be cracked & so arrid dry
Em D
And your tears won’t hydrate the ground
C D G Gmaj7 ....
Nothing ventured nothing gained that’s what I found
I started out with a telescope, I had to turn it round to see any hope
And here I am, I know where to go
The earth may be cracked & so arrid dry
And your tears won’t hydrate the ground
Nothing ventured nothing gained that’s what I found
(Inst over G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 C D G Gmaj7 ...
I started out with an empty lap, sea charts & a life map
And here I am, I can’t fold it back
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Ernie's Liquid Gold
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Ernie’s Liquid Gold
D G D A
V1, Nineteen hundred & seven and fortune favours the brave
D G D A D
Mackinley’s gifts from heaven sit beneath the Nimrod’s sails,
25 cases from Inverness set to keep those explorers warm
Freezing cold wind biting at their chest and that whiskey it glows from the floor
A G A
(Br) Continue the journey oh Paterson said It’s a marriage of malts that’s what I’m
G
told,
D G D A
(Ch) And the spirit of adventure and passion is here when I have Ernie’s liquid
D
gold.
V2, 18 months later they sailed home leaving 3 crates safe in the ice
100 years of time will pass before that secret is brought back to life
Br. Continue the journey oh Paterson said It’s a marriage of malts that’s what I’m told
Ch. And the spirit of adventure and passion is here when I have Ernie’s liquid gold
V3, Richard ‘the nose’ was put to task to recreate this prize
American white oak, sherry casks and peat from the Orkney Isles
Inst..
Continue the journey oh Paterson said It’s a marriage of malts that’s what I’m told
And the spirit of adventure and passion is here when I have Ernie’s liquid gold (x2)
And the spirit of adventure and passion is here when I have Ernie’s liquid gold (x3)
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Summer Standing Still
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Summer Standing Still
Mike Turnbull
G C Dsus G C Dsus
V.1. We drive thru a tunnel of trees, endless, with a four window breeze
G C Dsus G C Dsus
And blowing our cares to a universal place, between the sun’s glorious...
Em C Em Dsus Em
Br. ...Rays, we walk between staffs of gold, to a place where nobody knows
C Em Dsus
And in our eyes, a window to the soul where we can roam
V.2. We danced on pebbles the size of our fist, to a cave where faith still exists
A glittering sea in our eyes it rolls towards us, with an infinite sigh
Br. We walk between staffs of gold, to a place where nobody knows
And in our eyes, a window to the soul where we can roam
G C Dsus
Ch. Here I am at the top of the hill
G C Dsus
360 view and the air so still
G C Dsus
And a skylark belting his tunes to the fields
Em Dsus
And I’m here with you...
G C Dsus G C Dsus G C Dsus
...and the summer’s standing still summer standing still, summer standing still
Em Dsus
Summer standing still.
V.3.Smells from the sea, rise from the stove, Mark Rad’ on the radio
Filling the air with sounds in our ears, will we still do this, throughout the years?
Br. Will we walk between staffs of gold, to a place where nobody knows
And in our eyes, a window to the soul where we can roam
Ch. x 2
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Every Last Wolf
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Every Last Wolf
Mike Turnbull
In a time where winderness was tamed
And blackthorns in the eyes of the brave
Ghost prints remain on the cliffs
And Wraysholme Tower exists
Edgar threw down his fist
Said every last wolf not to be missed
Come forward all you brave fellas
And take the hand of dearest Adela
Br. We’ll start the chase at Windermere
Ride our steeds as far as here
South, with an unknown knight
Just who is this mystery man they cried
Ch. We’ll find the old grey enemy
The last wolf to surely tread
In the forests of old England
Chase him until he’s stone dead
Kill every last wolf he said x 4
Whoever shall succeed
Will have the crest of the wolf indeed
And carved on the tomb at your feet
That wolf mild & meek
Upon the cliffs of Humphrey Head
The wolf has Adela in dread
With teeth bared & real
Grey fur met with steel
Br, Ch.
Who was this knight with a spear
Who took the hand of dearest Adela
Who was this mysterious one
It was Edgars long lost son
Br, Ch.
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Mike Turnbull Kendal, UK
"Mike Turnbull is a singer-songwriter from the Lake District, UK whose main instruments are tenor guitar & octave mandola.
Their sound coupled with the sources of his songs suggests Seth Lakeman and, in truth, that isn’t a bad comparison. He certainly has the same drive and energy."
Dai Jeffries - Folking.com
Independent artist and
session musician for heavyrainsoundstudio.com Kendal.
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