Along The Western Seaboard

G Heavenly father could you hear the prayers I offer you today, Bm some of the people in the parish have been asking me to pray for them, C they have no strength to help themselves, C they need help fending for themselves, D and we do all we can do but theres so little that we can do, G and this is the worst winter I know of even worse than last, Bm the snow has stayed for too long on the ground and for the second year around, C now all across our little Island we give all our sweat and toil D and still the crops they have all rotted in the soil, Am and all along the Western seaboard they await with open hands D for something to feed there children or a ship to foreign lands, Am but there's nothing here to give them except for chicken feed and sand, D while Britannia rules the roost with iron hands Am Lord what can we do now, Am oh good Lord what can we do D when we need to feed so many and there's not even for the few, Am Lord what can we do now, Am Lord what can we do, D they are starving, they are freezing, N.C Am and their clothes have all worn through Am D Am D G Heavenly father your people need you more than ever now, Bm it is such a desperate situation that the nation's in somehow, C D I can't see many pulling through because even if we had the food to feed them many have disease, D Lord I hope you hear our pleas, G they are scattered by the roadside, G in the towns and in the fields, Bm and there is not even food to work for, nevermind beg, lend or steal, C and if we go by the predictions with starvation and eviction D some two million will be dead before we're through, Am still all along the western seaboard they await with open hands D for something to feed their children or a ship to foreign lands, Am for there's nothing here to give them except for chicken feed and sand, D while Britannia rules the roost with iron hands Am Lord what can we do now, Am oh good lord Lord what can we do, D when we need to feed so many but there's not even for the few, Am Lord what can we do now, Am Lord what can we do, D they are starving, N.C. they are freezing, N.C. Am and their clothes have all worn through, Am D D Am they have no one else but you. Am D Am D