Fairport Convention - Close To The Wind

      [Intro]
E    C#m  B  C#m  B  E

[Verse]
N.C. E       C#m     B        A
Fare-well to you, my faithful Nancy
      C#m      B       E
And a thousand times, adieu
N.C.    E         C#m           B        A
For the constable comes up from Brackley Market
      C#m     B          E
And a hundred volunteers too

[Verse]
   A                        E
No more will we hide in the forest
    F#m7                      B
For fear they would run us to ground
        E    C#m     B       A
But the wild sea, we sailed upon it
C#m B            E
Too close to the wind

[Instrumental]
E    C#m  B  C#m  B  E

[Verse]
           C#m           B         A
For twenty years we have roved the highways
C#m B      E
Northamptonshire
         C#m         B        A
Daventry down to the southern byways
C#m             B            E
Topped both the rich and the poor

[Verse]
    A                          E
For ofttimes our families were starving
        F#m7                  B
And the highway it kept them alive
        E    C#m     B       A
And the wild sea, we sailed upon it
C#m B            E
Too close to the wind

[Instrumental]
E    C#m  B  C#m  B  E

[Verse]
          C#m      B        A
Tonight I lie in a darkened dungeon
   C#m           B          E
Condemned on the gallows to die
                  C#m      B      A
While the man who gave us away is only
  C#m        B    E
Bound for Australia

[Verse]
   A                       E
No man could be found to defend us
    F#m7                      B
And naught but abuse came our way
        E    C#m     B       A
But the wild sea, we sailed upon it
C#m B            E
Too close to the wind

[Instrumental]
E    C#m  B  C#m  B  E

[Verse]
                    C#m       B           A
And the clouds they rise over Northampton market
        C#m         B        E
And the crowds pour into the town
                    C#m             B             A
And the people will throng in these streets until sunset
         C#m     B       E
When the hangman cuts us down

[Verse]
    A                 E
And fifty children of Culworth
      F#m7               B
Their fathers are taken away
        E    C#m       B       A
And the wild sea, they sailed upon it
C#m B            E
Too close to the wind
    E    C#m     B       A       C#m
The wild sea, we sailed upon it
    B            E
Too close to the wind

[Outro]
E    C#m  B  C#m  B  E