The Wind Is Getting Stronger Chords - Rory McLeod

{c: Capo 6}

Intro

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D#m A# All in the tangles you're trying to untie by telling A# D#m But you tie yourself up with the one who's told D#m A# Grandma's hands are stiff, when I hold them they're freezing A# D#m She's still refusing to get old B F# Her fingers hurt bad, can't close her handbag A# D#m Can't do the buttons of her jumper up B F# Her body's gone wrong, but stubborn and strong A# D#m She argues with the doctor D#m A# Call me the nurse I don't want a hearse A# D#m The police are getting younger D#m A# The stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter A# D#m The wind is getting stronger D#m A# She emigrated from Russia at nine months old A# D#m She's still got all her teeth, some are filled with gold D#m A# But they hurt her now when she drinks something cold A# D#m She won't stand her false teeth a-rattling her gobhole B F# Her fingers hurt bad, can't close her handbag A# D#m Can't do the buttons of her jumper up B F# Her body's gone wrong, but stubborn and strong A# D#m She argues with the doctor D#m A# Call me the nurse I don't want a hearse A# D#m The police are getting younger D#m A# The stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter A# D#m The wind is getting stronger D#m A# Grandma was raised near Stepney Green A# D#m Between Aldgate East and Petticoat Lane D#m A# Her mother always made sure there was food to eat A# D#m But as a girl she ran around without shoes on her feet B F# Her dad spoke Russian, not much English A# D#m My Gran translated for him, Cockney to Yiddish B F# She mothered her brothers and daughtered her mother A# D#m The blind fool tried to stop her daughter seeing my father B F# 'Cause he was an atheist, he wasn't kosher A# D#m My mum and dad eloped so they could get closer B F# But my great gran told my mum you love him that's enough A# D#m 'Cause my great gran was forced to wed a man she didn't love B F# Grandma said we didn't know it but times were very hard then A# D#m But then at least there was the dancing A# D#m But then at least we could go dancing

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D#m A# I was the oldest sister so I never had a childhood A# D#m When I was six years old, she talks D#m A# I had to spoon feed and carry my brothers A# D#m 'Till they were old enough to walk D#m A# As a girl she worked as a seamstress A# D#m That's how her nine brothers and her sister were fed D#m A# She has a little hole in her front tooth A# D#m From the constant biting of the cotton and thread B F# Her fingers hurt bad, can't close her handbag A# D#m Can't do the buttons of her jumper up B F# Her body's gone wrong, but stubborn and strong A# D#m She argues with the doctor D#m A# Call me the nurse I don't want a hearse A# D#m The cops are getting younger D#m A# The stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter A# D#m The wind is getting stronger D#m A# When she was seventy years I saw her throw a spinning top A# D#m And catch it spinning on a piece of string D#m A# She could touch her toes and shoot a netball A# D#m And spin around the ballroom dancing B F# Waltzes, Fandangos, Charlestons and Tangos A# D#m She and my grandpa would foxtrot B F# A# They won prizes but illness sacrifices youth D#m So now they have both stopped D#m A# Call me the nurse I don't want a hearse A# D#m The cops are getting younger D#m A# The stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter A# D#m The wind is getting stronger D#m A# Well call me the nurse I don't want a hearse A# D#m The police are getting younger D#m A# The stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter A# D#m The wind is getting stronger A# D#m The wind is getting stronger A# D#m The wind is getting stronger

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