Housemartins — Ill Be Your Shelter Just Like A Shelter Chords
Song: I'll Be Your Shelter (Just Like a Shelter)
Artist: The Housemartins
Album: London 0 Hull 4 (1986)
Tabbed By: Alex Blackburne
Lyrics in (brackets) are sung by the backing singers/choir.
Intro
C / F (x2)
Verse
C G
In times when you're troubled
C F
Seems more than you can afford
G C
And you feel, you feel you need a friend
F G
Someone to share the load
Chorus
Am G F
And when your skies grow cloudy
Am G F
I want you to know got a friend that's true
C F
Just like a shelter, in a time of storm
C F
I'll see you through, that's what I'll do
Verse
C G
When your dreams are scattered
C F
Just like the wind blown sand
G C
And you feel, you feel you need a friend
F G
I'll be there, reach out your hand
Chorus
Am G F
And when the tempest is raging
Am G F
I want you to know got a friend that's true
C F
Just like a shelter, in a time of storm
C F
I'll see you through, that's what I'll do
Verse
C G
I'll see you through your bad times
C F
I'll see you through your fears
G C
I'll see you through your hang ups
F G
Honey I'll dry all your tears
Chorus
Am G F
And when the tempest is raging
Am G F
I want you to know got a friend that's true
C F
Just like a shelter, in a time of storm
C F
I'll see you through, that's what I'll do
Bridge
C F
I will see you through, I will see you through
C F
I will see you through, I will see you through, Let me hear the choir
C F
(I will see you through, I will see you through) Oh yeah
C F
(I will see you through, I will see you through)
C F
When my load got heavy, did you see me through?
C F
When my load got too hard to bear, did you see me through?
C
What would you do? (I will see you through)
F
What would you do? (I will see you through)
C
What would you do? (I will see you through)
F
What would you do? (I will see you through)
C
Let me hear you break it down now
F
Let me hear you bring it up
C
Let me hear you take it higher
F C
Let me hear you take it higher
F
Higher
C
Higher
F
Just bring it down a little bit
C / F (x6 with a few 'Oh yeahs')
C F
If you're living on the dole and there's no sugar in your bowl
C F
All you need to do is give a little knock
C F
Don't despair he'll be there with his loving and his care
C F
Marx will work for us right around the clock, he's alright
Outro
C
He's alright (he's alright)
F
He's alright (he's alright)
—repeat several times and finish on a C—