Chords for Garnet Rogers - "Farewell to the Harbor"

_ [Eb] _ [G] _ _ _ [Bb] I could break your heart to watch the sun _ _ strike all along the shore,
Where the little boats up on the stream, _ _ _ as they [C] did long years before.
But our [G] life burns dim tonight, [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] they close [Bbm] these boats all down,
_ _ And the men [G] all stand in silence on the corners of the town.
They stand [Bb] and smoke like a storm, _ _ they watch the crowd roll by,
_ _ [G] This stare of two listeners, [G] all are [F] angry-eyed.
[G] Us farewell, [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
the fields, farewell the diesel water, _ [G] swells [F] beneath your heel. _
[Gm] What's [F] gone is gone forever.
[Bb] _ _ _ _
I pray someday we'll meet, _ that we'll meet again some brighter day,
[Gm] On this [F] path of years.
[Bb] _ [G] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] The houses here are much the same, [Bb] _ [G] but I'll rather have them in [Bb] more worn.
_ _ The shingles they gleam [Bb] like silver, _ _ [G] as they did when we were [F] born. _ _
[Gm] And the silver [G] pine and [Bb] moss and vines, [G] boys and girls [Bb] and ladies too,
_ Still see my storm and pray to dare, _ _ [Gm] as they did [F] back in our youth.
_ [G] Us farewell, the harbour, [Bb] _
[G] this [Bb] farewell of the fields, farewell the diesel water,
[G] swells beneath [F] your heel.
What's gone [C] is gone forever.
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ I [Bb] pray someday we'll meet, _ that we'll meet again some brighter day,
_ _ On [C] this path of years.
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] I'd like my hand in [Bbm] this steel, _ _ I'd [Bb] raise it to my mouth, _
_ The sun won't restore the air, to get it off [F] of the stone,
The air was _ sweet, the blood was clean, and [Eb] the sea [Bbm] was salt and clear.
_ _ [C] And the sun danced [Bb] on the water, _ _ as we [F] swept back the year.
[G] _ _ _ [Bb] _
Us farewell, the harbour, this farewell of the fields, farewell the diesel [G] water,
[Bb] _ _ _ [C] swells beneath your heel.
What's gone [Bb] is gone forever. _ _ _
[Fm] I pray [Bb] someday we'll meet, _ _ [Gm] that we'll meet [Bb] again some brighter day,
_ _ On [C] this [F] path of [G] years.
I [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ climbed a hill and I paused for breath, _
_ [Fm] For I'd [Eb] sent a wall of black bagwood plans, _
Down by the greenest chandeliers hill, _ _
[G] Where the precious [F] garden flowers dance, _ _
[G] I stood once more and I [Bb] crossed the ridge, _ _
[Fm] Of that [Gm] dear and [Bb] familiar hill,
_ _ At the [F] beating of the waves was [Bb] lost,
Like _ _ _ _ [Gm] a hog [C] to a porter, still.
[F] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [Bb] Farewell, the harbour, _ _ farewell of the fields, farewell the diesel water, _ _
[C] Swells beneath your heel.
What's [Gm] gone is gone, it's lost [Bb] forever.
I pray someday we'll meet, _ [C] that we'll meet again some [Bb] brighter day,
On this [F] path of years.
_ _ [C] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[G] _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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