St Peter and St James/Ginger Jar
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 17/02/2020

A new poem and a remix of one from about 1995


St Peter and St James

D E/A G A
Go with the flow of clear water
Em7 D A
From the first gasp of unchosen birth
D E/A G A
Through childhood, the sound of laughter
Em7 D A
To motherhood, love and mirth

G A Bm Em
The river runs fast and free
G D Em7
Carrying treasures from your past
G A Bm Em
Where it leads you can only see
G D Em7
Once you reach the sea at last

But there it does not truly end
From those cool still deeps you will rise
Back into the sky as a cloud ascend
To fall as rain onto mountains high

Now you can rest, your journey’s done
Your vessel becomes driftwood in the waves
Those of us left must further run
With clear water, blessed with the joy you gave

TJD 11/2/20

E/A: x0645x





The Ginger Jar

Intro: F7 D#7 Dm7 D#7   x4

Verse 1:
F7  D#7      Dm7            D#7  
Walk along the old railway line
F7          D#7                 Dm7 D#7  
Whistling Jake Thackray songs
F7        D#7                         Dm7             D#7  
Past the yachts moored in the winter creek
F7          D#7                          Dm7  D#7  
While the wind blows from the downs

Reach inside an old donkey jacket
For some Golden Virginia
Walk through Freshwater town
Looking for the ginger jar

Chorus:
G            Dm7         C         G
A pot of tea in the Ginger Jar
G              Dm7        C         G
Takes me back to a distant past
G              Dm7     C            G
That time back in Seventy-five
G           Dm7          C          G
The last time I was glad to be
Alive

Link:  C9 D4  C9  D4  C9  D4 Dm7

Verse 2:
Take the path back across the fields
Past the old de Quincey's farm
Home as the early night draws in
With the Souwester blowing hard

Play chess before a driftwood fire
Listen to 'All Things Must Pass'
Hear the shipping bouys out at sea
Lapse back into memories

CHORUS
INTRO

F7 xx3210 D#7  xx103x Dm7 xx0211  C9  x32030 D4 xx0032