(Bm) I promised to show you Greek (D) lightning (G )Oh and your heart it was (D) easily won
                                      
(Bm )Away from the drinking and ( D)fighting with (G ) nights in the tavern and (D) days in the sun                

(G )We could leave drunken (D) Saturday nights, and the (Em7) cold damp (Bm) Wednesday sign-ons
                                            
To (G ) see new (A) skies filled with Greek (Bm) lightning


You promised to show me Greek lightning Oh and my heart it was easily won

Your words had a way so exciting Just like they always do I should have known

But time staggered on and I watched as you fell into booze, bloody bad temper and hell

But you always just managed to win me with talk of Greek lightning
                                                                                     
And (D) Dreams let you down, they just let you (G) down but they never (D) leave you   

(A) No they never (Bm) leave you


At the wettest of Durham big meetings oh how your heart it was easily won

I shouted for tunes by the Beatles, not that fat man from Athens they kept putting on

But the beer got me singing to his serenade and you laughed all embarrassed in your lemonade

And I told you that one day I’d light up your sky with Greek lightning

Chorus x2


Many big meetings and chances had happened oh and my heart it was easily won

My hopes have grown thin and you’ve fattened on six pints a night till your dole money’s gone

And you weep drunkard’s tears all over my hand sometimes call me a cow then you think I’m your mam

And I watch as you watch for that flash in the pan of Greek lightning

Chorus x2
                                                              
Oh and we (G ) always make do for a (D) week and a day for the (Em ) hot sands of (Bm) Roker or Whitley Bay
 
And we (G) look to that high northern (A) sky for a flash of Greek (Bm )lightning

Chorus x2 and second chorus runs into final line..
                                                              
+ Oh they never (D) leave you, and (Em7) I’ll never (Bm) leave you