Mother Glasgow Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays521

Mother Glasgow by Hue And Cry is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords E, A, B, F#m, C#m, C and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
Text
16
Speed
  			E                       A       B 
In the second city of the Empire 
A                    B                  E 
Mother Glasgow watches all her weans 
E                               A B 
Trying hard to feed her little starlings 
F#m                     B               E 
Unconsciously she clips their little wings 

verse 2 as above 

E                               A               B 
Among the flightless birds and sightless starlings 
A                       B               E 
Father Glasgow knows his starlings well 
E                               A       B 
He wont make his own way up to heaven 
F#m                     B               E 
By waltzing all his charges in to h*** 

A                       B       E 
Mother Glasgow's succour is perpetual 
E                       B 
Nestling the Billy and the Tim 
E                                    A    B 
I dreamt I took a dander with St. Mungo 
A                   B                   E        
To try to catch a fish that couldnae swim 

C#m 
And the tree 
C 
And the fish 
B 
And the bird 
Bb 
And the bell... 

A       B F#m B E 
Let Glasgow Flourish! 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante