Ed Sheeran – Castle on the Hill

Performed by
Ed Sheeran
Release Year
2017
Album
÷ (Divide)
Suggested Capo
Fret 2

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Ed Sheeran – Castle on the Hill
Key: D Major BPM: ♩ = 135 Time: 4/4
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   When I was six years old, I broke my leg
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   I was running from my brother and his friends      
|D           |G                   |Bm              |A          |
   Tasted the sweet perfume of the mountain grass I rolled down
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   I was younger then,  take me back to when I

|G         |A                 |D                     |G                          |
   Found my heart and broke it here, made friends and lost them through the years
|G             |A               |D                 |G                |
   And I've not seen the roaring fields in so long, I know I've grown
|G            |A              |
   But I can't wait to go home

|D        |G   |Bm        |A      |D            |G     |Bm         |A           |
 I'm on my way, driving at 90 down those country lanes, singing to “Tiny Dancer"
   |D         |G           |Bm        |A              |
And I miss the way you make   me feel,   and it's real
|D             |G     |Bm      |A                 |
 We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill

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|D              |G              |Bm                    |A  |
   Fifteen years old and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes
|D                 |G                             |Bm                     |A      |
   Running from the law through the backfields and   getting drunk with my friends
|D             |G               |Bm            |A                         |
   Had my first kiss on a Friday night, I don't reckon that I did it right
|D                  |G    |Bm               |A   |
   But I was younger then,   take me back to when

        |G        |A                |D                   |G                              |
We found   weekend jobs, when we got paid, we'd buy cheap spirits and drink them straight
|G          |A                      |D             |G                 |
   Me and my friends have not thrown up in so long, oh how we've grown
|G            |A              |
   But I can't wait to go home

|D        |G   |Bm        |A      |D            |G     |Bm         |A           |
 I'm on my way, driving at 90 down those country lanes, singing to “Tiny Dancer"
   |D         |G           |Bm        |A              |
And I miss the way you make   me feel,   and it's real
|D             |G     |Bm      |A                 |
 We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill
|D   |G   |Bm      |A                 |D   |G   |Bm      |A                 |
           Over the castle on the hill,          over the castle on the hill

|Bm     |G     |D     |A     |

|Bm          |G                   |D          |A                |
   One friend left to sell clothes,  one works down by the coast
|Bm           |G                   |D      |A                |
   One had two kids but lives alone,  one's brother overdosed
|Bm       |G                       |D           |A                |
   One's already on his second wife,  one's just barely getting by
|Bm              |G             |D      |A              |
 But these people raised me, and I can't wait to go home


   |D        |G   |Bm       |A            |D          |G          |Bm        |A               |
And I'm on my way, I still remember, these old country lanes, when we did not know the answers
   |D         |G           |Bm       |A              |
And I miss the way you make   me feel,  and it's real
|D             |G     |Bm      |A                 |
 We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill
|D   |G   |Bm      |A                 |D   |G   |Bm      |A                 |
           Over the castle on the hill,          over the castle on the hill

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