The Reach Chords by Dan Fogelberg

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_ _ [B] _ [C#] It's _
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_ May and it's [F#]
Autumn, the birches have just begun [G#] _ _ turning.
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[B] _ It's life and it's dying, the lobstermen's [B] boats come [G#] _ _ returning.
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With the [D#m] catch of the day in their [B] hold, _ _ _ [D#m] and the young boys cold and [B] complaining.
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_ [F#] The fog meets the [B] beaches and [F#] out on the reach it is raining. _
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_ [C#] _ It's [F#] father and son, it's the way it's been done [G#] since the _ old [B] days. _ _ _
[C#] _ _ It's [F#] hauling by [B] hand, ten miles [F#] out from the [B] land [C#] where their _ child _ [D#] waits. _
_ _ And [D#m] the days are all lonely and [B] long, _ _ and [D#m] the seas grow so stormy and strong.
[C#] But _ [F#] the reach will sing, welcome is homeward, they _ hurry _ along.
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And the morning will _ blow, _ _ _ as the waves crash [B] and fall. _ _ _ _
And the reach like [F#] a _ siren _ _ sings, as she beckons [G#] and _ calls.
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As the [B] coastline [F#] _ _
recedes from _ view, and the seas swell [B] and grow.
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I will take from [F#] the reach, all that she _ [D#] has to teach, to the depths of [F#] my _ soul.
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_ _ _ _ wind brings a chill, there's a frost on the [B] silt [G#] in the _ _ _ morning.
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_ _ _ [F#] It creeps through the door on the edge of the shore, [G#] as it's _ _ thawing.
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_ _ Soon [D#m] the northers will bluster [B] and glow, _ _ _ [D#m] and the woods will be whitened [B] with _ _ [C#] snowfall.
[F#] And the reach will lie frozen for the lost and _ unchosen to roll. _ _ _ _ _
And the morning will _ blow, [F#] _ _ _ _
as the waves crash [B] and fall.
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And the reach like [F#] a _ _ siren _ sings, as she beckons [D#] and calls.
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As the [B] coastline [F#] _ _
recedes from _ view, and the seas swell [B] and grow.
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I will take from [F#] the reach, all that she has [D#] to teach, to the depths of [F#] my _ soul. _ _ _ _
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