{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1714981,"song":"The Wind Is Getting Stronger","artist":"Rory McLeod","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11362091-the-wind-is-getting-stronger-chords-by-rory-mcleod/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1714981?type=chord","rating":0.15428,"votes":0,"content":"Capo 6\r\n\r\nIntro:\r\n\r\n[tab]------||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||\r\n------||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||\r\n------||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||\r\n------||2-----0---2---3-2-0---0---------|0---------0---2-0---------------||\r\n--0-3-||----3---------------3---------2-|----2-3-----------0---3---------||\r\n0-----||--------------------------0-3---|--------------------------------|| x2[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||\r\n||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||\r\n||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||\r\n||--0-2-0-5---3-------2---3---2---|------0-2-0-----------2---------||\r\n||------------3-----3---3-----3---|--2-3-------3-2-(003)-----------||\r\n||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||\r\n||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||\r\n||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||\r\n||--0-2-0-5---3-------2---3---2---|------0-2-0---------------------||\r\n||------------3-----3---3-----3---|--2-3-------3-2-0--0------------||\r\n||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAll in the tangles you're trying to untie by telling[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut you tie yourself up with the one who's told[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nGrandma's hands are stiff, when I hold them they're freezing[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  She's still refusing to get old[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Her fingers hurt bad, can't close her handbag[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  Can't do the buttons of her jumper up[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Her body's gone wrong, but stubborn and strong[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  She argues with the doctor[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nCall me the nurse I don't want a hearse[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe police are getting younger[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe wind is getting stronger[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe emigrated from Russia at nine months old[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nShe's still got all her teeth, some are filled with gold[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut they hurt her now when she drinks something cold[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nShe won't stand her false teeth a-rattling her gobhole[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Her fingers hurt bad, can't close her handbag[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  Can't do the buttons of her jumper up[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Her body's gone wrong, but stubborn and strong[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  She argues with the doctor[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nCall me the nurse I don't want a hearse[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe police are getting younger[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe wind is getting stronger[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nGrandma was raised near Stepney Green[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBetween Aldgate East and Petticoat Lane[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHer mother always made sure there was food to eat[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut as a girl she ran around without shoes on her feet[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHer dad spoke Russian, not much English[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMy Gran translated for him, Cockney to Yiddish[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe mothered her brothers and daughtered her mother[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]                               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe blind fool tried to stop her daughter seeing my father[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'Cause he was an atheist, he wasn't kosher[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMy mum and dad eloped so they could get closer[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut my great gran told my mum you love him that's enough[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n'Cause my great gran was forced to wed a man she didn't love[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGrandma said we didn't know it but times were very hard then[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  But then at least there was the dancing[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  But then at least we could go dancing[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n{Vocal break}\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI was the oldest sister so I never had a childhood[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  When I was six years old, she talks[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI had to spoon feed and carry my brothers[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  'Till they were old enough to walk[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAs a girl she worked as a seamstress[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThat's how her nine brothers and her sister were fed[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe has a little hole in her front tooth[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFrom the constant biting of the cotton and thread[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Her fingers hurt bad, can't close her handbag[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  Can't do the buttons of her jumper up[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Her body's gone wrong, but stubborn and strong[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  She argues with the doctor[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nCall me the nurse I don't want a hearse[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe cops are getting younger[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe wind is getting stronger[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhen she was seventy years I saw her throw a spinning top[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd catch it spinning on a piece of string[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe could touch her toes and shoot a netball[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd spin around the ballroom dancing[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Waltzes, Fandangos, Charlestons and Tangos[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  She and my grandpa would foxtrot[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\n  They won prizes but illness sacrifices youth[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSo now they have both stopped[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nCall me the nurse I don't want a hearse[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe cops are getting younger[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe wind is getting stronger[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWell call me the nurse I don't want a hearse[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe police are getting younger[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe wind is getting stronger[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe wind is getting stronger[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe wind is getting stronger[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n{Vocal break}","plain_text":"Capo 6\n\nIntro:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n{Vocal break}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n{Vocal break}","chords":["Am","E","F","C"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]}}}