"The Last Ship" by Sting

tabbed by Assassin_DUDE

This is more or less my first tabbed song. So suggestions are very welcome. For the 
Picking rythm and the C7 D7
E7 and F#7 you have to play some variations. just listen to the song.

Intro: Em 8x

Verse1:


Em         E7sus4/G     D7sus      E7sus4/G      D7sus
It's all there in the gospels, the Magdalene girl
 E7sus4/G     D7sus        C             D
Comes to pay her respects, but her mind is awhirl.
Em       E7sus4/G       D7sus      E7sus4/G       D7sus
When she finds the tomb empty, the stone had been rolled,
 E7sus4/G       D7sus          C            D
Not a sign of a corpse in the dark and the cold.
 C7
When she reaches the door, sees an unholy sight,
 D7
There's this solitary figure in a halo of light.
 E7
He just carries on floating past Calvary Hill,
 F#7
In an almighty hurry, aye but she might catch him still.


Verse2:


Em         E7sus4/G     D7sus      E7sus4/G      D7sus
"Tell me where are ye going Lord, and why in such haste?"
 E7sus4/G         D7sus            C          D
"Now don't hinder me woman, I've no time to waste!
Em           E7sus4/G   D7sus       E7sus4/G  D7sus
For they're launching a boat on the morrow at noon,
 E7sus4/G        D7sus         C             D
And I have to be there before daybreak.
 C7
Oh I canna be missing, the lads'll expect me,
 D7
Why else would the good Lord himself resurrect me?
 E7
For nothing will stop me, I have to prevail,
 F#7
Through the teeth of this tempest, in the mouth of a gale,
Em      E7sus4/G     D7sus       E7sus4/G    D7sus
May the angels protect me if all else should fail,
Em   E7sus4/G  D7sus   E7sus4/G     D7sus
When   the      last     ship       sails."


Chorus:


Em      E7sus4/G    D7sus         E7sus4/G     D7sus
Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
Em      E7sus4/G    D7sus         E7sus4/G     D7sus
The noise at the end of the world in your ears,
Em    E7sus4/G   D7sus           E7sus4/G   D7sus
As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
Em   E7sus4/G  D7sus   E7sus4/G     D7sus
And   the      last     ship       sails..


Em     E7sus4/G        D7sus        E7sus4/G   D7sus
It's a strange kind of beauty, It's cold and  austere,
Em     E7sus4/G     D7sus      E7sus4/G   D7sus
And whatever it was that ye've done to be here,
Em      E7sus4/G    D7sus    E7sus4/G       D7sus
It's the sum of yr hopes yr despairs and yr fears,
Em   E7sus4/G  D7sus   E7sus4/G     D7sus
When   the      last     ship       sails.


Bridge:


 C7
Well the first to arrive saw these signs in the east,
 D7
Like that strange moving finger at Balthazar's Feast,
Em        E7sus4/G    D7sus         E7sus4/G  D7sus
Where they asked the advice of some wandering priest,
E7sus4/G             D7sus             C           D
And the sad ghosts of men whom they'd thought long deceased,
Em      E7sus4/G  D7sus          E7sus4/G   D7sus
And whatever got said, they'd be counted at least,
Em   E7sus4/G  D7sus   E7sus4/G     D7sus
When   the      last     ship       sails.


Chorus2:


Em      E7sus4/G    D7sus         E7sus4/G     D7sus
Oh the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,
Em      E7sus4/G    D7sus         E7sus4/G     D7sus
The noise at the end of the world in your ears,
Em    E7sus4/G   D7sus           E7sus4/G   D7sus
As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea,
Em   E7sus4/G  D7sus   E7sus4/G     D7sus
And   the      last     ship       sails..
Em      E7sus4/G    D7sus        E7sus4/G    D7sus
And whatever you'd promised, whatever you've done,
Em      E7sus4/G  D7sus      E7sus4/G     D7sus
And whatever the station in life you've become.
Em     E7sus4/G    D7sus          E7sus4/G    D7sus
In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son,
Em      E7sus4/G  D7sus        E7sus4/G      D7sus
And whatever the weave of this life that you've spun,
Em     E7sus4/G    D7sus     E7sus4/G  D7sus
On the Earth or in Heaven or under the Sun,
Em   E7sus4/G  D7sus   E7sus4/G     D7sus
When   the      last     ship       sails.

Em    E7sus4/G  D7sus   E7sus4/G     D7sus
Ohhh   the      last     ship       sails.

Em    E7sus4/G  D7sus   E7sus4/G     D7sus
Ohhh   the      last     ship       sails.