by Hank Marvin
G
A
Throw down a line, help a poor boy
A G D
Who's drowning in the stormy sea
A
Throw down a line, help a poor boy
A G D
Who's hanging in a nowhere tree
D A
Have you got a place for me
Am
Men are tied in chains of silence
F G
I look on violence, up, down, left and right
G D
Is there no hope of light
Am
The peaceful hand that once caressed me
F G
Hurts like the rest, because it's turned to stone
G D
Talons of steel have grown
A
Throw down a line, help a poor boy
A G D
Who's drowning in the stormy sea
A
Throw down a line, help a poor boy
A G D
Who's hanging in a nowhere tree
D A
Have you got a place for me
Am F G D
Yeah,
D Am F G D
oh help me, yeah
A
Throw down a line, help a poor boy
A G D
Who's drowning in the stormy sea
A
Throw down a line, help a poor boy
A G D
Who's hanging in a nowhere tree
D A
Have you got a place for me
Am
See the moon, it's getting nearer
F G
But no more clearer than the earth below
G D
What do we really know
Am
I feel the stab of pain returning
F G
Despair is burning in my heart again
G D
Why don't they see the end, ooooh
A
Throw down a line, help a poor boy
A G D
Who's drowning in the stormy sea
A
Yeah, throw down a line, help a poor boy
A G D
Who's hanging in a nowhere tree
D A
Have you got a place for me
A
Throw down a line, help a poor boy
A G D
Who's drowning in the stormy sea
A
Yeah, throw down a line, help a poor boy
A G D
Who's hanging in a nowhere tree
D A
Have you got a place for me