Make & Break Harbour     3/4     Stan Rogers     Fogarty's Cove
Standard Tuning/Waltz strumming 1-2-3      Transcribed by Ken Lee
                                                                Comments or suggestions to kandvlee@shaw.ca
Intro: 8 Bars D

        / D              / Bm         / G             / A
How / still lies the / bay in the / light western / airs,
          / Em                / G                /  A    /
Which / blow from the / crimson hor- / izon, /
         / D                  / D7                / G             / A
Once / more we tack / home, with a / dry empty / hold,
           / Em                / G               / A     / /
Saving / nets,  with the / breezes so / fair,  / /
            /  D                / Bm        / G              / A
She's a /  kindly Cape / Islander, / old but still / sound,
           / Em          / G             / A           /
But so / lost in the / long liners / shadow, /
                / D                       / D7            / G              / A
Make and  / Break and make / do, but the / fish are so / few,
              / Em             / G                         / D          / / /
That she / won't be re - / placed should she / founder. / / /

                / D              / Bm        / G                  / A
Now its so / hard to not / think, of / before the big / War,
               / Em             / G                   / A         / /
When the / cod went so / cheap, but so / plenty,  / /
            /  D             / D7               / G                 / A
Foreign / trawlers go / by now, with / long seeking / eyes,
           / Em              / G                 / D
Taking / all where, we / seldom take / any, and
      / D                      / Bm               / G               / A
The / young folk don't / stay, with the / fisherman's / ways
             / Em           / G                 / A       /
Long a - / go they all / moved to the / cities, / and
      / D                  / D7                / G          / A
The / ones left be - / hind, old and / tired and / blind
         / A             / G               / D
Won't / work for a / pound, for a / penny.

Chorus:

    / G                      / A               / D                 /
In / Make and Break / Harbour the / boats are so / few,
      / Bm          / A                  / G        /
Too / many are / pulled-up and / rotten. /
   .    / D                   / Bm           / D                 / G
Most / houses stand / empty, old / nets hung to / dry,
      / A                 / G                / D         /
Are / blown away, / lost and for - / gotten. /


Break: One Verse Melody (Instrumental)

               / D               /  Bm              / G                  / A
Now I can / see the big / draggers that / stirred up the / bay,
            / Em              / G                     / A          /
Leaving / lobster traps / smashed on the / bottom, / and
        / D                / D7             / G                 / A
They / think it don't / pay, to re - / spect the old / ways,
       / A                       / G                         / A
That / Make and Break / men have not for - / gotten.

          / D                  / Bm             / G             / A
For we / still keep our / time, to the / turn of the / tide,
          / Em            / G                 / A         /
In this / boat, that I / built, with my / Father, /
      / D              / D7               / G               / A
Still / lifts to the / sky, the One / Lunger and / I
      / A                / G                   / D       /
Still / talk like old / friends, on the / water. /

Break: Chorus: @2