🎸 The Soul Cages chords by Sting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo5c8Qplfco

Intro:
Gm Bb C Gm F C
Gm Bb C Gm F C


Verse:
Gm               Bb        C
The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard
Gm                    Bb  C
There's a bloodless moon where the oceans die
Gm             Bb        C
A shoal of night stars hang fire in the nets
     Gm           Bb    C
And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie
Gm           Bb        C
Where is the fisherman, where is the goat,
Gm             Bb     C
Where is the keeper in his carrion coat?
  Gm            Bb     C
Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies
Gm             Bb    C
Where is the child with his father's eyes?

C Bb

Bridge:
Gm               Bb C F Gm
He's the king of the ninth world
Gm                 Bb C F Gm
The twisted son of the fog bells' toll
Gm              Bb C F Gm
In each and every lobster cage,   a tortured human soul


Pre-Chorus:
Bb             Bbsus2
These are the souls of the broken factories
Bb            Bbsus2
The subject slaves of the broken crown
Bb           Bbsus2
The dead accounting of old guilty promises
Bb             C
These are the souls of the broken town


Chorus:
Gm      Bb    C
These are the soul cages
Gm      F     C
These are the soul cages
Gm      Bb    C
These are the soul cages
Gm      Bb    C
These are the soul cages


Am C Bb
Am C Bb


Verse:
Am               C   D G
'I have a wager,' the brave child spoke
Am               C        D  G
The fisherman laughed though disturbed at the joke
Am               C        D  G
'You will drink what I drink But you must equal me,
Am                  C        D
And if the drink leaves me standing, A soul shall go free'
Am             C    D
'I have here a cask of most magical wine
Am              C       D
A vintage that blessed every ship in the line
Am         C       D
It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died
Am         C       D
Young white bodies adrift in the tide'
Am              C       D
'And what's in it for me, my pretty young thing?
Am              C     D
Why should I whistle when the caged bird sings?
Am              C       D
If you lose a wager with the king of the sea
Am               C         D
You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me'


Chorus:
Am      C     D
These are the soul cages
Am      C     D
These are the soul cages
Am      C     D
These are the soul cages
Am      C     D
These are the soul cages


Bridge:
Am            C     D
A body lies open in the fisherman's yard like
Am      C     D
The side of a ship where the iceberg rips
Am      C        D
One less soul in the soul cages
Am           G     D
One last curse on the fisherman's lips


Chorus:
Am      C     D
These are the soul cages
Am      C     D
These are the soul cages
Am      C     D
These are the soul cages
Am      C     D
These are the soul cages
Am      C     D
These are the soul cages


Outro:
Dsus2      A
And he dreamed of a ship on the sea
Dsus2      A
It would carry his father and he
Dsus2      A
To a place they could never be found
Dsus2      A
To a place far away from this town
Dsus2      A
A Newcastle ship with no coals
Dsus2      A
They would sail to the island of souls

B Bsus2

Chorus Outro:
F#m      A     B
These are the soul cages
F#m      A     B
These are the soul cages
F#m      A     B
These are the soul cages
F#m      A     B