Lord Bateman's Motorbike Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D](va[Bm]riabl[G]e amounts of clouds,
but some
[D]Sunny spells as well
There is going [G]to be the odd shower)
Lord [D]Bateman

[Verse 2]
runs an inn
out on [Bm]the A[G]65
[D]Sort of place where everybody
[Bm]Drinks be[G]fore they drive
[Em]Weekends runs a motorbike to
Scar[A]borough and back
[Em]He’s not too many brandies from
[A]A second heart [D]attack[G]
John [D]Barleycorn he works the land
And [G]drinks at Bateman’s Inn
[D]An d every evening toasts to all the
[G]Things that might have been
[Em]Tells the world that once he had
A tri[A]al for Hull KR
Now he [Em]watches them on TV in
[A]The corner of [D]the bar
[G][D][G]

[Verse 3]
Lord [D]Bateman gets up early lifts
[G]The latches on the gate
Sev[D]en horses stabled and the
Fam[G]ily sleeping late
[Em]Fourteen hundred acres two [A]daughters
And a son [Em]he’ll ride
the eastern coast and
Back be[A]fore the [D]morning’s done[G]
John [D]Barleycorn he’s up at dawn
And [G]working off the beer
[D]Same thing every day of every
[G]Week of every year
[Em]Hears Lord Bateman racing by
[A]Along the county lanes
And [Em]pulls his jacket tight against
The [A]coming of [D]the rain
[G]

[Interlude 1]
[D][G]
[D][G][D][G]
Lord [D]Bateman

[Verse 4]
meets
the storm that’s
[G]Coming in from the shore
[D]Speeding over Quarry Hill
[G]at 85 or more
[Em]There’s rain to take the wheels
Away [A]rain among the glass
And [Em]rain to wash the blood into
The tarmac [A]and [D]the grass[G]
In [D]the months to come John Barleycorn
[G]He sit's and drinks his fill
[D]Measures out his life between his
[G]Pocket and the till
So [Em]down the generations Batem[A]an’s
Son behind the bar
While [Em]Barleycorn he sips his beer
And [A]watches Hull KR
(I'm having a wonderful [D]time
[G][D][G]
[D][G][D][G]
[D]
Drunk on[G]com[D] mu[G] ni[D]on[G]
[D]win[G]e[D]
[G][D][G][D]
[G][D][G]
I'm [D]having a wonderful [G]time
Drunk [D]on communion wine)

[Outro 1]
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