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"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
There's a city, C#m A A6 F#m11 B/D# draped in net F#m11 B/D#
Fisherman net F#m11 Eadd9 B/D# C#And in the half light, B Badd9 A
in the half light Am7 It looks like every tower C#m7 A A6 F#m11 B/D#
Is covered in webs F#m11 Eadd9 B/D# F#mMoving and glistenEing and rocking B/D#
F#m Its babies in rhythm E As theB/D# spider of time is climbinF#mg
E Over the ruins B/D#
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#Sails at theB13/D# windows B7add11/D# Badd11/D# B7add11/D# B13/D# A Amaj7 B And the planes came crashing down
And maF#m9ny a pilF#m7ot droF#m9wned Eadd9 E Eadd11And the sBadd11/D#peed boats fB13/D#lying abovB7add11/D#e Badd11/D# B7add11/D#
Put your handAadd9 over the side of the boat B C#m11And what do you feel?
My mothC#m7er F#m7 F#m11 B/D# and her little brown jug F#m11 Eadd9 B/D#
It held her milk F#m7 Eadd9 B/D# And now it holds our mF#memories E B/D#
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#m7hee hee heBe B(Little brown jug don'tB6 I loBve theB6e) B7 B C#m11 Emaj7 C#m11 Emaj9
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
See it falC#ml Amaj7 F#m9 F#m F#m9 B/D# B7/D# See it fall
Oh little spiderF#m climEbing out of a brokB/D#en jug
F#m9 F#m7 E Eadd9 B/D# G#m7/D#
F#m7 And the piecF#m9es will lay there F#m7a while E Eadd9 In a houBadd11/D#se draped inB13/D# net B7add11/D# Badd11/D#
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#Forests of B7add11/D#masts Badd11/D# B7add11/D# 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?