The Last Ship piano leadsheet with chords

It's all there in the gospels;

the Magdalene girl comes to pay her respects,

but her mind is awhirl when she finds the tomb empty.

The stone had been rolled;

not a sign of a corpse

in the dark and the cold.

When she reaches the door,

sees an unholy sight.

There's this solitary figure

in a halo of light.

He just carries on, floating past Calv'ry Hill.

in an almighty hurry,

aye, but she might catch him still.

"Tell me, where are you goin',

Lord, and why in such haste?"

"Now don't hinder me, woman,

I've no time to waste.

For they're launching a boat on the morrow at noon,

and I have to be there before daybreak.

Oh, I cannot be missing;

the lads'll expect me.

Why else would the good Lord Himself resurrect me?

For nothing will stop me;

I have to prevail

through the teeth of this tempest in the mouth of a gale.

May the angels protect me if all else should fail and the last ship sails."

Oh, the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,

the noise at the end of the world in your ears as a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea and the last ship sails.

It's a strange kind of beauty,

it's cold and austere, and whatever it was that you've done to be here,

it's the sum of your hopes,

your despairs and your fears,

when the last ship sails.

Well, the first to arrive saw these signs in the east like that strange,

moving finger at Balthazar's feast,

where he asked the advice of some wandering priest and the sad ghosts of men whom they'd thought long deceased.

And whatever got said, they'd be counted,

at least, when the last ship sails.

Oh, the roar of the chains and the cracking of timbers,

the noise at the end of the world in your ears as a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea and the last ship sails.

And whatever you'd promised,

whatever you've done, and whatever the station in life you've become,

in the name of the Father,

in the name of the Son,

and whatever the weave of this life that you've spun on the earth or in heaven or under the sun when the last ship sails.