Key: D
Introduction:
D A4 A
I'm going up the 'Pool, from down the smoke below
D A4 A
to taste me mum's jam Sarnis and see our Aunty Flo,
Bm A4A G Bm A4 A G
The candy floss salesman watches ladies in the sand
C G Bb C
down for freaky weekends in the hope that they'll be meeting
D C G Dm7 D
Mr. Universe.
D A4 A
The iron tower smiles down upon the silver sea
D A4 A
and along the golden mile they'll be swigging mugs of tea.
Bm A4A G Bm A4A G
The politicians there who've come to take the air
C G Bb C
while posing for the daily press will look around and blame the mess
D C G Dm7 D
on Edward Pier.
D C G D
There'll be buckets, spades and bingo, cockles, muscels, rainy days
Bb C D G6
seaweed and sand-castles, icy waves.
D C G D
Deck-chairs, rubber dinghies, old vests, braces dangling down,
Bb C D
a sun-tanned stranded starfish in a daze.
We're going up the 'Pool from down the Smoke below
D C G D C G D Am
Oh, Blackpool, oh, Blackpool.