The Napoli Chords

KeyB CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays406

The Napoli by Show Of Hands is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of B. It uses the chords B, C, D, Em, G, Am, Dm, F, F#m and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
B
Text
16
Speed
  			
verse 1 

B          C          
Midwinter, two years ago, 
D                 Em        
Out to the west a storm began to blow, 
    G                      D             
And the word went round to those in the know: 
    Am                 C 
The Napoli's gonna run aground. 


verse 2 

B               C 
She's listing a week out of the docks, 
D                    Em 
A hundred containers a-heading for the rocks, 
G                      D 
Gather round lads now, quick out of your blocks, 
Am         C 
Everyone's Branscombe bound. 
Am              C             
Said everyone's Branscombe bound. 


G 
Come gangs from the north, 
Dm 
Lads off the moor, 
C                           F            
Wreckers on the cliffs, get down to the shore. 
G                    Dm                          
Scratch Joe Public - What's underneath? 
C                              F         F#m 
A looter, and a pirate, and a thief. 


verse 3 

B               C 
All those boxes washed off the deck, 
D                                Em 
Right through the hand of the receiver of the wrecks 
G                               D 
We ought to fill a form in, but no-one's gonna check, 
Am                   C 
Cause there ain't no coppers on the shore, 
Am                                C 
No, there ain't no coppers on the shore. 


G 
Come gangs from the north, 
Dm 
Lads off the moor, 
C                           F            
Wreckers on the cliffs, get down to the shore. 
G                    Dm                          
Scratch Joe Public - What's underneath? 
C                              F         F#m 
A looter, and a pirate, and a thief. 


verse 4 

B                       C 
Four and twenty ponies trotting through the dark, 
D                      Em 
Brandy for the Parson, baccy for the Clerk, 
G                  D 
Lace for a lady, letters for a spy; 
Am                                   C            Bm 
Watch the wall my darling, while the gentlemen go by. 


G 
Come gangs from the north, 
Dm 
Lads off the moor, 
C                           F            
Wreckers on the cliffs, get down to the shore. 
G                    Dm                          
Scratch Joe Public - What's underneath? 
C                              F         F#m 
A looter, and a pirate, and a thief. 


Bridge 

G                D 
Flotsam, jetsam, call it what you like. 
C                      F 
I got a big oak barrel and a german motorbike, 
G                      D 
From Lyme bay to eBay, tell me where's the sin? 
C                               F 
Everyone's a wrecker 'neath the skin... 

G 
Come gangs from the north, 
Dm 
Lads off the moor, 
C                           F            
Wreckers on the cliffs, get down to the shore. 
G                    Dm                          
Scratch Joe Public - What's underneath? 
C                              F 
A looter, and a pirate, and a thief. 
C                              F 
A looter, and a pirate, and a thief. 
C                              F        G 
A looter, and a pirate, and a thief. 
    	

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.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante