"A Coral Room"
By Kate Bush
From "Aerial" (2005)

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#m7 (x4242x@1)  A6 (x04xxx@1) F#m11    B/D# (x2544x@1)  C#m (x13321@4)  Badd9 (135211@7)C#m (x13321@4)       A (x02220@1)    A6 (x04xxx@1)   F#m11    B/D# (x2544x@1)      
There's a city, 
 
                    F#m11         B/D#draped (x2544x@1)in net

F#m11     Eadd9 (024100@1)     B/D# (x2544x@1)    
Fisherman net

C# (x43121@1)                             B (x2444x@1)    Badd9 (135211@7)   AAnd (x02220@1)in the half light,

Am7in (x02010@1)the half light

C#m7 (x4242x@1)        A (x02220@1)        A6 (x04xxx@1)       F#m11          B/D#It (x2544x@1)looks like every tower

F#m11          Eadd9 (024100@1)         B/D#Is (x2544x@1)covered in webs

F#m (244222@1)             E (022100@1)               B/D#Moving (x2544x@1)and glistening and rocking

F#m (244222@1)                         E (022100@1)     Its babies in rhythm

B/D# (x2544x@1)                    F#m (244222@1)As the spider of time is climbing

E (022100@1)                           B/D# (x2544x@1) 
    Over the ruins

F#m9      Abm7/Eb     Amaj7#11    Amaj7

F#m9   F#m7    F#m7add11   Eadd11   E
There were hundreds of people living here

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

B13/Eb           A (x02220@1)                    Amaj7 (x02120@1)      BAnd (x2444x@1)the planes came crashing down

F#m9 (242224@1)  F#m7 (131141@2)F#m9 (242224@1)    Eadd9 (024100@1)  EAnd (022100@1)many a pilot drowned

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

Aadd9 (x02420@1)                                     BPut (x2444x@1)your hand over the side of the boat

C#m11
And what do you feel?

C#m7 (x4242x@1)    F#m7 (131141@2)   F#m11     B/D# (x2544x@1)   
My mother

F#m11       Eadd9 (024100@1)  B/D#and (x2544x@1)her little brown jug

F#m7 (131141@2)       Eadd9 (024100@1)     B/D#It (x2544x@1)held her milk

F#m (244222@1)      E (022100@1)                B/D#And (x2544x@1)now it holds our memories

F#m7 (131141@2)        Eadd9 (024100@1)   Badd11/Eb     B/D# (x2544x@1)    
I can hear her singing

F#m7/C#                                             Eadd9/B
"Little brown jug don't I love thee"

Esus2/Eb                                              
"Little brown jug don't I love thee"

F#m7 (131141@2) F#m9 (242224@1)     F#m7 (131141@2)  Eadd9/F#
Ho ho ho,

F#m7 (131141@2)    Bhee (x2444x@1)hee hee
 
B (x2444x@1)                    B6 (02110x@1) B (x2444x@1)   B6 (02110x@1)B7 (x21202@1) B (x2444x@1)        C#m11     Emaj7 (021100@1)   C#m11    Emaj9(Little (021102@1)brown jug don't I love thee)

B6/Eb            B6/F#   B7/F#   F#m7add11    E/G# (143121@4)  Aadd9 (x02420@1) 
(Little brown jug don't I love thee)

Badd11     Aadd9 (x02420@1)  E/G# (143121@4)   F#m9 (242224@1)  F#m7 (131141@2)Eadd9/Ab    F#m7/A    Badd11    F#m7/A
I hear her laughing

Eadd9/Ab  A9   Emaj7/B   Amaj7   Badd11   
She is standing in the kitchen

F#m7   Amaj7   E/B    Aadd9
As we come in the back door

C#m (x13321@4)        Amaj7See (x02120@1)it fall

F#m9 (242224@1)    F#m (244222@1)   F#m9 (242224@1) B/D# (x2544x@1)  B7/Eb
See it fall

F#m (244222@1)E (022100@1)               B/D#Oh (x2544x@1)little spider climbing out of a broken jug

F#m9 (242224@1)   F#m7 (131141@2)   E (022100@1)   Eadd9 (024100@1)  B/D# (x2544x@1)  Abm7/Eb

F#m7 (131141@2)       F#m9 (242224@1)            F#m7 (131141@2)       E (022100@1)    Eadd9 (024100@1)And the pieces will lay there a while

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

B13/Eb   F#m7/A   F#m7add11   Badd11   B13
In a room filled with coral

F#m7 (131141@2)  F#m9 (242224@1)  F#m7 (131141@2)  E (022100@1)  Eadd11    E (022100@1)   Badd11/Eb
Sails at the window

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

Badd11/Eb    F#m7add11/A    F#madd11/A     F#m7add11/A     Badd9    Badd11
Put your hand over the side of the boat

F#m9 (242224@1)             Badd11/Eb              Badd9Put (135211@7)your hand over the side of the boat

B11/Eb
And what do you feel?