Island Of Souls 
6/8 Dm9 Dm7(addG)    6x 

Dm9                   G7sus
Billy was born within sight of the shipyard
      Dm9                G7sus
First son of a riveter's son
    Dm9                     G7sus
And Billy was raised as the ship grew a shadow
    Dm9                           G7sus
Her great hull would blot out the light of the sun 

Dm9 G7sus
    Dm9                      G7sus
And six days a week he would watch his poor father
  Dm9                     G7sus
A working man live like a slave
     Dm9                        G7sus
He'd drink every night and he'd dream of a future,
   Dm9                  G7sus
Of money he never would save
      Cm7                9/8: Ab(add9)                6/8:
(And) Billy would cry when he thought of the future
Dm9                      G7sus
Soon came a day when the bottle was broken
        Dm9                       G7sus
They launched a great ship out to sea
   Dm9                      G7sus
He felt he'd been left on a desolate shore
     Dm9                   G7sus
To a future he desperately wanted to flee
Cm7                       Ab(add9)
What else was there for a riveter's son
      Bb
A new ship to be built, new work to be done
    F/A     Bb                        Dm/G
One day he dreamed of the ship in the world
         Dm                   F/A
It would carry his father and he
     Bb                        Gm7 F/A
To a place they would never be found
     Gm/Bb      C7            Dm9
To a place far away from this town. 

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Trapped in the cage of the skeleton ship
All the workmen suspended like flies
Caught in the flare of acetylene light
A working man works till the industry dies
      Cm7                9/8: Ab(add9)              6/8:
(And) Billy would cry when he thought of the future
Dm9                      G7sus
Then what they call an industrial accident
Dm9                          G7sus
Crushed those it couldn't forgive
     Dm9                         G7sus
They brought Billy's father back home in an ambulance
  Dm9                          G7sus
A brass watch, a cheque, maybe three weeks to live,
      Cm7                       Ab(add9)
(And) what else was there for a riveter's son
      Bb
A new ship to be built, new work to be done 

     F/A       Bb                         Dm/G
That night, he dreamed of the ship in the world
         Dm                   F/A
It would carry his father and he
     Bb                        Gm7
To a place they could never be found 

F/A       Gm/Bb      C7            Dm9
     To a place far away from this town, 

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Trapped in the cage of the skeleton ship
All the workmen suspended like flies
Caught in the flare of acetylene light
A working man works till the industry dies
Dm/G        Dm                      F/A
found, to a place far away from his town
  Bb                     Gm7
A Newcastle ship without coals
F/A            Bb          C7        Dm9
    They would sail to the island of souls. 

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Dm9              xx3210
Dm7(addG)        xx3213
G7sus            300011
Cm7              035343
Ab(add9)         006546
Bb               003331
F/A              x03211
Dm/G             300231
Dm               xx0231
Gm7              xx4444
Gm/Bb            x10333
C7               x32310
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