Somewhere In England 1915

  The standout track from Al's 2005 albumn "A Beach Full of Shells"
  
  
  A6 [x 0 2 2 3 0]
 
 
 
 Intro: A A6 A A6
 
  
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 On the platform of an old railway station I enter a dream
         Bm                                                  A     A6 
 And a couple are saying good-bye through the noise and the steam
           E                                           F# 
 But it's just "Brief Encounter" my mind is trying to rerun
        E                                              A 
 And I wait for the poignant finale but the dream has moved on
 
 
          Bm                                           A     A6 
 And the train has turned into a ship that is sailing away
          Bm                                                A     A6 
 And the platform is a beach full of shells under silvery grey
           E                                           F# 
 And the girl on the beach is an English Prime Minister's daughter
          E                                              A
  And she watches the ship disappear at the edge of the water
          D                                             C#m 
 And it feels like the pain in her heart will be never-ending
      Bm                  E          A         A6 
 And everyone feels this way in the beginning
 
 
          Bm                                             A     A6 
 And she watches the ship disappear for the length of a sigh
          Bm                                         A     A6 
 And the maker of rhymes onthe deck who is going to die
           E                                                F# 
 In the corner of some foreign field that will make him so famous
        E                                        A 
 As a light temporarily shines to illumine his pages
 
 
          Bm                                           A     A6 
 Then the scene has changed once again; now it's moonlight on wire
          Bm                                           A     A6 
 And the night is disturbed by a sudden volcano of fire
           E                                           F# 
 And a skull in a trench gazes up open-mouthed at the moon
           E                                           F# 
 And the poets are now Wilfred  O w e n and Siegfried Sassoon
          D                                             C#m 
 And nobody talks anymore about losing and winning
      Bm                  E          A         A6 
 And everyone feels that way in the beginning
 
 
 
  A                  E           D        E         A 
 And I'm up in the air looking down at a girl on a bed
  A             E           D           E           A 
 She's lying asleep on her side with a book at her head
  A                              D    
 And it's someone who left long ago
  E                  A 
 Was it something I said?
  A                     E             D                E                A 
 And I hope that she's reading "King Lear", but it's "Twelfth Night" instead.
 
 
          Bm                                                    A     A6 
 Now the girl and the beach and the train and the ship are all gone
          Bm                                             A     A6 
 And the calendar up on the wall says it's ninety years on
    E                                        F# 
 I go out into the yard where the newspaper waits
            E                                         A                                              
  There's a man on the cover we all know, defying the fates
          D                                   C#m 
 And he seems very sure as   he offers up his opinion
       Bm                  E                A         A6 
 Well everyone feels like this in the beginning
 
 
           D                                        C#m 
 When you feel that the pain in your heart will be unending
      Bm              E             A         A6 
 Everyone feels this way in the beginning
 
          D                                             C#m 
 If you feel that the pain in your heart will be never-ending
       Bm                  E             A         A6 
 Well everyone feels that way in the beginning