"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 A6 F#m11 B/D# C#m Badd9
C#m A A6 F#m11 B/D#
There's a city,
F#m11 B/D#
draped in net
F#m11 Eadd9 B/D#
Fisherman net
C# B Badd9 A
And in the half light,
Am7
in the half light
C#m7 A A6 F#m11 B/D#
It looks like every tower
F#m11 Eadd9 B/D#
Is covered in webs
F#m E B/D#
Moving and glistening and rocking
F#m E
Its babies in rhythm
B/D# F#m
As the spider of time is climbing
E B/D#
Over the ruins
F#m9 G#m7/D# 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/D# A Amaj7 B
And the planes came crashing down
F#m9 F#m7 F#m9 Eadd9 E
And many a pilot drowned
Eadd11 Badd11/D# B13/D# B7add11/D# Badd11/D# B7add11/D#
And the speed boats flying above
Aadd9 B
Put your hand over the side of the boat
C#m11
And what do you feel?
C#m7 F#m7 F#m11 B/D#
My mother
F#m11 Eadd9 B/D#
and her little brown jug
F#m7 Eadd9 B/D#
It held her milk
F#m E B/D#
And now it holds our memories
F#m7 Eadd9 Badd11/D# B/D#
I can hear her singing
F#m7/C# Eadd9/B
“Little brown jug don't I love thee”
Esus2/D#
“Little brown jug don't I love thee”
F#m7 F#m9 F#m7 Eadd9/F#
Ho ho ho,
F#m7 B
hee hee hee
B B6 B B6 B7 B C#m11 Emaj7 C#m11 Emaj9
(Little brown jug don't I love thee)
B6/D# B6/F# B7/F# F#m7add11 E/G# Aadd9
(Little brown jug don't I love thee)
Badd11 Aadd9 E/G# F#m9 F#m7
Eadd9/G# F#m7/A Badd11 F#m7/A
I hear her laughing
Eadd9/G# A9 Emaj7/B Amaj7 Badd11
She is standing in the kitchen
F#m7 Amaj7 Emaj/B Aadd9
As we come in the back door
C#m Amaj7
See it fall
F#m9 F#m F#m9 B/D# B7/D#
See it fall
F#m E B/D#
Oh little spider climbing out of a broken jug
F#m9 F#m7 E Eadd9 B/D# G#m7/D#
F#m7 F#m9 F#m7 E Eadd9
And the pieces will lay there a while
Badd11/D# B13/D# B7add11/D# Badd11/D#
In a house draped in net
B13/D# F#m7/A F#m7add11 Badd11 B13
In a room filled with coral
F#m7 F#m9 F#m7 E Eadd11 E Badd11/D#
Sails at the window
B13/D# B7add11/D# Badd11/D# B7add11/D#
Forests of masts
Badd11/D# F#m7add11/A F#madd11/A F#m7add11/A Badd9 Badd11
Put your hand over the side of the boat
F#m9 Badd11/D# Badd9
Put your hand over the side of the boat
B11/D#
And what do you feel?
