What Have We Got chords by Sting

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
D
Good people give ear to me story,
           C      D
pay attention, and none of your lip,
for I've brought you five lads and their daddy,
         C      D
intending to build ye's a ship.

D

Wallsend is wor habitation,
           C      D
it's the place we was all born and bred
and there's nay finer lads in the nation
           C    D
and none are more gallantly led.

G

Chorus:
A             D        E
What have we got, but the buzzer in the morning?
     A             D      E
Aye, and what have we got, but the laying of a keel?
    A             D        E
And what have we got, but the cranes above us soaring?
A            D       E       A
The commotion and the clamour in the welding of the steel?


Chorus:
A             D        E
What have we got, but the mist upon the river?
     A             D      E
Tell me, what have we got, but the noise inside the hold?
    A             D        E
Oh, what have we got, but the arse end of the weather?
A            D       E       A
Where we work in horizontal rain, and shiver in the cold.


Verse:
B
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
               F#
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
      G#m
You've got nowt.
   G#m F# B
We've got nowt else.

B
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
               F#
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
      G#m
You've got nowt.
   G#m F# B
We've got nowt else.


Chorus:
A             D        E
What have ye got, but the singing in the cables?
    A             D      E
Oh, what have ye got, but the ringing in your ears?
   A             D        E
Aye, what have ye got, but the telling of the fables?
     A       D            E         A
And the memories of the ships, that we've been building donkey's years.


Verse:
B
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
               F#
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
      G#m
You've got nowt.
   G#m F# B
We've got nowt else.

B
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
               F#
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
      G#m
You've got nowt.
   G#m F# B
We've got nowt else.


Bridge:
F#m7
Aye, you've got to die of something,
F#m
It's written in your fate,
F#m7
Ye may as well die of a Tuesday,
F#m
And woe betide you're late.


Instrumental:
F#m / B7 / F#m7 / F#m


Chorus:
G             C         D
What have ye got, all you men what's fit and able?
G             C         D
What have ye got, for the straining in your neck?
G              C         D
What have ye got, when you're laid out on the table?
     Em       D       C        G
And the snapping of a cable when the rigging hits the deck?


Chorus:
G             C      D
What have ye got, but the loyalty of brothers?
G             C       D
What have ye got, but this union of the dock?
G             C         D
What have ye got, a bacon sandwich from your mother?
     Em    D       C        A
Not a promise of another with the punching of the clock.


Verse:
A
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
               E
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
F#m
You've got nowt
F#m     E  A
We've got nowt else.

A
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
               E
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
F#m
You've got nowt
F#m     E  A
We've got nowt else.

B
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
               F#
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
G#m
You've got nowt.
   G#m  F#   B
We've got... nowt... else.