The Last Watch chords by Stan Rogers

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

STAN ROGERS – The Last Watch
from “From Fresh Water” (1984)

Intro:
D G A Bm D G A

Verse 1:
   Bm        A        G   A
They dragged her down, dead, from Tobermory
  Bm         D        Em  A
Too cheap to spare her one last head of steam
G       D
Deep in diesel fume embrace
E               G      A    G A
Dust and soot upon the face of one who was so clean
   Bm         A        G     A
They brought me here to watch her in the boneyard
   Bm        D        Em  A
Just two old wrecks to spend the night alone
   G        D
It’s dark inside this evil place
    E                  G       A    G A
Clouds on the moon hide her disgrace, this whiskey hides my own

Chorus 1:
     D  G      A    G A
It’s the last watch on the Midland
  D  G   A
The last watch alone
  Bm  A    G
One last night to love her
  C  Bm  A   D   G A Bm D G A
The last night she’s whole

Verse 2:
Bm        A        G   A
My guess is that we were young together
   Bm         D           Em  A
Like her’s, my strength was young and hard as steel
  G        D
And like her too, I knew my ground
 E                  G       A   G A
I scarcely felt the years go round in answer to the wheel
  Bm           A        G    A
But then they quenched the fire beneath the boilers
   Bm       D         Em  A
Gave me a watch and showed me out the door
  G         D
At sixty-four, you’re still the best
E                    G     A     G A
One year more, and then you’re less than dust upon the floor

Chorus 2:
     D  G      A    G A
It’s the last watch on the Midland
  D  G   A
The last watch alone
  Bm  A    G
One last night to love her
  C  Bm  A   D   G A Bm D G A
The last night she’s whole

Verse 3:
  Bm        A       G A
So here’s to useless superannuation
  Bm      D       Em  A
And us old relics of the days of steam
    G        D
In the morning, Lord, I would prefer
   E                 G   A      G A
When men with torches come for her, let angels come for me

Chorus 3:
     D  G      A    G A
It’s the last watch on the Midland
  D  G   A
The last watch alone
  Bm  A    G
One last night to love her
  C  Bm  A   D
The last night she’s whole
G  A  D  G      A    G A
It’s the last watch on the Midland
  D  G   A
The last watch alone
  Bm  A    G
One last night to love her
  C  Bm  A   D   G A Bm
The last night she’s whole