Tonart: G major
Verse 1
C
My un cle was a stoker,
G
fed the belly of the beast
C
And he shoveled round the compass roads
G
to the west, back to the east
D
The endless toil, the heat and noise,
C
G
and the darkness black as coal
D
And the endless apatite of fire
on the voyage from young to old
G
C
he was nearer, my God, to Thee
G
C
In the crucible of the cruel sea
G
C
G
C
He was nearer, my God,
G
he was nearer, my God, to thee
C
G
C
G
In the crucible of the cruel sea
C
My father was a signal man
G
He rendered speech and sight
C
The snap of flags and the winter wind
G
And the flashing of the light
D
The ceaseless hold of wind and cold
C
G
And the straight horizon grey
D
And the seeming endlessness of night
And the dawning of the day
G
C
He was nearer, my God,
G
C
He was nearer, my God, to Thee
G
C
And the crucible of the cruel sea
G
C
G
C
He was near, my God,
G
He was near, my God, to Thee
C
G
C
G
An d the crucible of the cruel sea
C
G
C
G
C
G
C
G
C
G
C
G
C
And all the men, so much like them,
D
G
C
who left without a plea
G
C
Who disappeared in a flash of light
G
C
from the face of the rolling sea
G
D
An d the sinking of their simple hopes
C
G
in the si lencing of all
D
And the unforgiving emptiness
of the ocean's rise and fall
C
They were nearer, my God,
G
they were nearer, my God, to Thee
C
G
C
In the crucible of the cruel sea
G
C
They were nearer, my God,
G
C
they were nearer, my God, to Thee
G
C
G
C
In the crucible of the cruel sea
You
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