Lyrics

Tiles and Slabs

Nigel Rolfe / Christy Moore   

G
A country artist making tiles
F
Whilst on a grave slab sleeps a son
G                            F
Wet clay dug from the earth, wet stones covering the ground
G                               F
Earth that buried another woman died, dead and gone
G                      F
Left a torn lonely boy trying to reconfirm
G            F
Trying to reconnect
G                              C
Trying to know himself and to contact the country
G                              C
Trying to know himself and to contact the country

G                 F
Whilst the artist celebrates
G            F
Connects and confirms
G            F
Contacts the country
G     F
Knows herself
G         C
Tiles and slabs
C         G
Woman and son
C
Take away
G
Take a gun
G                  C7
Blow away the blow-in
C7
The blow-in

G                         F
Kill the mother, kill the child in yourself
G
Kill the pain
G                                   F
Kill the father and the son and the holy ghost
G
Kill the pain

G                           F             G
Violence from an inner rage buried in the country
G                           F             G
Violence from an inner rage buried in the country