D
Good people give ear to me story,
                     C           D
pay attention, and none of your lip,
for I've brought you five lads and their daddy,
                 C           D
intending to build ye's a ship.

D
Wallsend is wor habitation,
                     C           D
it's the place we was all born and bred
and there's nay finer lads in the nation
                     C       D
and none are more gallantly led.

G

[Chorus]
A                          D                E
What have we got, but the buzzer in the morning?
          A                          D           E
Aye, and what have we got, but the laying of a keel?
        A                          D                E
And what have we got, but the cranes above us soaring?
A                        D             E              A
The commotion and the clamour in the welding of the steel?


[Chorus]
A                          D                E
What have we got, but the mist upon the river?
          A                          D           E
Tell me, what have we got, but the noise inside the hold?
        A                          D                E
Oh, what have we got, but the arse end of the weather?
A                        D             E              A
Where we work in horizontal rain, and shiver in the cold.


[Verse]
B
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
                             F#
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
           G#m
You've got nowt.
      G#m  F#  B
We've got nowt else.

B
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
                             F#
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
           G#m
You've got nowt.
      G#m  F#  B
We've got nowt else.


[Chorus]
A                          D                E
What have ye got, but the singing in the cables?
       A                          D            E
Oh, what have ye got, but the ringing in your ears?
      A                          D                E
Aye, what have ye got, but the telling of the fables?
          A              D                       E                  A
And the memories of the ships, that we've been building donkey's years.


[Verse]
B
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
                             F#
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
           G#m
You've got nowt.
      G#m  F#  B
We've got nowt else.

B
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
                             F#
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
           G#m
You've got nowt.
      G#m  F#  B
We've got nowt else.


[Bridge]
F#m7
Aye, you've got to die of something,
F#m
It's written in your fate,
F#m7
Ye may as well die of a Tuesday,
F#m
And woe betide you're late.


[Instrumental]
F#m / B7 / F#m7 / F#m


[Chorus]
G                          C                  D
What have ye got, all you men what's fit and able?
G                          C                  D
What have ye got, for the straining in your neck?
G                            C                  D
What have ye got, when you're laid out on the table?
         Em             D              C                G
And the snapping of a cable when the rigging hits the deck?


[Chorus]
G                          C            D
What have ye got, but the loyalty of brothers?
G                          C             D
What have ye got, but this union of the dock?
G                          C                  D
What have ye got, a bacon sandwich from your mother?
         Em        D              C                A
Not a promise of another with the punching of the clock.


[Verse]
A
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
                             E
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
F#m
You've got nowt
F#m         E    A
We've got nowt else.

A
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
                             E
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
F#m
You've got nowt
F#m         E    A
We've got nowt else.

B
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
                             F#
What do ye got? (What do we got?)
G#m
You've got nowt.
      G#m    F#      B
We've got... nowt... else.