A Coral Room Chords & Lyrics by Kate Bush

A Coral Room

guitar chords lyrics

Kate Bush

"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

C#m A A6 F#m11 B/D#
There's a city,

F#m11 B/D#
draped in net

F#m11 Eadd9 B/D#
Fisherman net

C# B Badd9 A
And in the half light,

Am7
in the half light

C#m7 A A6 F#m11 B/D#
It looks like every tower

F#m11 Eadd9 B/D#
Is covered in webs

F#m E B/D#
Moving and glistening and rocking

F#m E
Its babies in rhythm

B/D# F#m
As the spider of time is climbing

E B/D#
Over the ruins


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# B13/D# B7add11/D# Badd11/D# B7add11/D#
Sails at the windows

B13/D# A Amaj7 B
And the planes came crashing down

F#m9 F#m7 F#m9 Eadd9 E
And many a pilot drowned

Eadd11 Badd11/D# B13/D# B7add11/D# Badd11/D# B7add11/D#
And the speed boats flying above

Aadd9 B
Put your hand over the side of the boat

C#m11
And what do you feel?


C#m7 F#m7 F#m11 B/D#
My mother

F#m11 Eadd9 B/D#
and her little brown jug

F#m7 Eadd9 B/D#
It held her milk

F#m E B/D#
And now it holds our memories

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#m7 B
hee hee hee

B B6 B B6 B7 B C#m11 Emaj7 C#m11 Emaj9
(Little brown jug don't I love thee)

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

C#m Amaj7
See it fall

F#m9 F#m F#m9 B/D# B7/D#
See it fall

F#m E B/D#
Oh little spider climbing out of a broken jug


F#m9 F#m7 E Eadd9 B/D# G#m7/D#


F#m7 F#m9 F#m7 E Eadd9
And the pieces will lay there a while

Badd11/D# B13/D# B7add11/D# Badd11/D#
In a house draped in net

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# B7add11/D# Badd11/D# B7add11/D#
Forests of masts

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?