• Song:

    A Coral Room

  • Artist:

    Kate Bush

  • Album:

    Aerial (disc 1: A Sea o...

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Perhaps the saddest, most poetic song she has ever written. (Stunning (and 
difficult) chord progressions- as goes for the rest of the album's songs)



Intro:    C#5    A5   F#m11    B5    C#5    B5


                 C#5         A5      A5     F#m11    B5        
There's a city, 
 
                    F#m11         B5
draped in net

                     F#m11     E5       B5      
Fisherman net

C#5                               B5      B5     A5
And in the half light, 

                                A5
in the half light

                                  C#5          A5          A5         F#m11          B5
It looks like every tower

                      F#m11          E5           B5
Is covered in webs

F#5               E5                 B5
Moving and glistening and rocking

F#5                           E5
      Its babies in rhythm

      B5                      F#5 
As the spider of time is climbing

E5                             B5   
    Over the ruins


F#5      Ab5     A7M#11    A5

                   F#5   F#5    F#m7add11   Eadd11   E5
There were hundreds of people living here

Badd11/D#   B13/D#   B7add11/D#   Badd11/D#   B7add11/D#
Sails at the windows

B5           A5                      A5        B5
And the planes came crashing down

      F#5    F#5  F#5      E5    E5
And many a pilot drowned

Eadd11   Badd11/D#   B13/D#    B7add11/D#   Badd11/D#    B7add11/D#
And the speed boats flying above

             A5                                       B5
Put your hand over the side of the boat

C#m11
And what do you feel?


       C#5      F#5     F#m11     B5     
My mother 

                                     F#m11       E5    B5
and her little brown jug

                    F#5         E5       B5
It held her milk

                      F#5        E5                  B5
And now it holds our memories

                             F#5          E5     Badd11/Eb5     B5      
I can hear her singing

F#5                                             E5
?Little brown jug don't I love thee?

E5                                              
?Little brown jug don't I love thee?

F#5   F#5       F#5    E5
Ho ho ho, 

F#5      B5
hee hee hee
 
B5                      B5   B5     B5  B5   B5          C#m11     E5     C#m11    E5
(Little brown jug don't I love thee)

B5            B5   B5   F#m7add11    E5    A5   
(Little brown jug don't I love thee)


Badd11     A5    E5     F#5    F#5

   E5    F#5    Badd11    F#5
I hear her laughing

E5  A5   E5   A5   Badd11   
She is standing in the kitchen

      F#5   A5   E5    A5
As we come in the back door

          C#5          A5
See it fall

            F#5      F#5     F#5   B5    B5
See it fall

                F#5  E5                 B5
Oh little spider climbing out of a broken jug


F#5     F#5     E5     E5    B5    Ab5

  
F#5         F#5              F#5         E5      E5
 And the pieces will lay there a while 

        Badd11/D#   B13/D#    B7add11/D#    Badd11/D#
In a house draped in net

   B5   F#5   F#m7add11   Badd11   B5
In a room filled with coral

F#5    F#5    F#5    E5    Eadd11    E5     Badd11/Eb5
Sails at the window

B13/D#     B7add11/D#     Badd11/D#    B7add11/D#
Forests of masts

Badd11/Eb5    F#m7add11/A5    F#madd11/A5     F#m7add11/A5     B5    Badd11
Put your hand over the side of the boat

               F#5               Badd11/Eb5              B5
Put your hand over the side of the boat

                                          B5
And what do you feel?
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