Chords for My Love Has Gone Across The Sea

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_ _ _ _ Sky, also known as Lele, is [Bb] 11 years [G] old. _ _
_ [C] _ When I first started writing the stories, _ [Bb] my kids were [N] younger than the wing feather
kids are in the books, _ but I have two boys and a little girl, and they were loosely based
on my own children.
_ The weird thing was, when [Fm] I started the story, Sky [N] was so young that I had no idea that she
would actually grow up to be the most musical of the four children in our home in some ways.
I also had no idea that Aiden would end up being the really _ bookish one of the family,
or that Asher would be the one who was always hungry and full of adventure and fun.
[F] _ _
It [Eb] makes me really sad that I [Fm] didn't write into the wing feather children, that they
would all be doctors and lawyers and lottery winners.
_ [Bb] _
_ Anyway, so Sky is here.
[Eb] We also have my friend Bethany Bordeaux.
So please welcome Bethany.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] So Bethany, you is [Ab] a fiddle player here in town, a musician here in Nashville, and if
you've been to the Behold the Lamb of God [Fm] show at the Ryman, then for the last few years
[Cm] Bethany has been a part of the string [C] quartet, so we're glad you're here.
This is [G] the second time that the three of us have ever done this song.
[C] So this song _ [Ab] [F] is from The Monster in the Hollows.
[N] For those of you guys who have read it, there's a scene at the very end of the book where
_ the cloven, I'm trying to be vague.
Has anybody here not read The Monster in the Hollows?
Okay, a few of you.
So there's a cloven _ in the last book that is dying, and Lili and Janner and Tinker are
kind of protecting him from the arrows of the enemy and laying over this dying beast, _
and Lili sings this song in order to bring this monster a kind of comfort.
And so one of the funnest things about writing _ is the way the book surprises you as the author.
For those of you guys who have read The Monster in the Hollows, there's a scene where Janner
and Kalmar are in Chimney Hill, and they're in the bedroom, and Rudrick comes in and he
says, everybody hide, there's a cloven loose in the hollows.
And everybody, like Nia says, go up in the room, don't look out the window, get on the
floor, but then for some reason, Janner ends up looking out the window and he sees this
kind of _ monster lurching across the moonlit yard.
At one point, the monster looks up at him and their eyes meet.
And _ _ _ _ this [Bb] is Jamie's costume, my wife's costume.
Thank you. _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ Jamie _ _ [N] is the monster in the hollows.
So there's a scene where _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the cloven looks at Janner, and Janner has this moment of fear
and it speaks in his mind.
I came home from Starbucks that day and plopped in my chair at home, and I was really depressed
[Bb] because I was stuck on the book.
And Jamie said, [N] what's wrong?
I was like, ah, man, I don't know.
I've written this whole [F] thing, and I've called the book The [Bb] Monster in the Hollows, and there's
this creature called a cloven.
I don't even know why the cloven is in the book.
And there's [N] a scene where it lurches across the lawn and looks at Janner, and I don't
even know why it's in there.
Oh, my goodness, I know why it's in there.
_ And I suddenly knew.
I was like, oh, that's why it's called The Monster in the Hollows.
And I saw just immediately the ending of the book, the closing scenes of the book flash
through my brain, and I started crying.
I just started [Abm] bawling a little bit because it was so sad for me.
_ [F] [Abm] So when people have told me, oh, I saw that coming, [Cm] I'm like, [F] no, you didn't.
_ _ I didn't even see it coming.
[C] So _ _ this is [N] the song, My Love Has Gone Across the Sea, which accidentally ended up being
kind of a metaphor for what it is that _ Esben did in the story.
So here we go.
You ready?
[C] My _ _ _ _ _ _ _ love has _ gone across [Em] the _ sea to find [Am] a country _ far [F] and fair.
_ _ _ [Am] Sailed in through _ the _ [Em] gilded west to roam [Am] my heart _
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[C] till [G] my _ love returns [Am] to _ me.
[F] _ _ Or I [C] set out _ [G] to find him [C] _ _ there.
_ Come home, come home _ _ [Em] to me.
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ Oh, when [F] winter's gone, _
[C] I'll sing [Am] for you the winter [Em] _ _ song.
And sing [Am] for you the _ summer [F] _
song.
[C] _ _ If you [G] _ _
can't return [Am] to me, _ [F] _
_ [C] then I will sing _ [G] to you [F] in _ secret.
[C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
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[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
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_ _ Towering _ waves and [Em] shriek of _ gale, how [C] may my _ _ vessel ever wedge _ and steer [Am] it by the
[Em] chord that _ bound my heart [Am] to _ _ [C] yours until [F] yours.
_ _ _ Should [Am] you _ fall, the [Em] body's healed and wrecked [Am] to fall,
[Gm] I'll follow [F] me _ shield. _
Rejoice, [G] my love, _ and call [Am] me blessed.
[F] _ _ _ [C] In death, my love, _ [G] I love you [F] best.
_ _ [G] Rejoice, my _ [C] love, and [Em] call me blessed.
In death, [F] my _ [G] love, I [C] love you best. _ _ _
[G] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
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[Bb] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Sky Peterson, _ Stephanie Bordeaux, I'm sorry. _ _ _
_ Thank you from the bottom of my heart for [Ab] _
reading these books and for [Bbm] coming here tonight.
I just can't even tell you what a dream come [N] true it is for me to get to share this story with you guys
and to meet you and to see that it got into your imagination somehow.
I just am amazed.
So I thank God for each of you. _ _ _ _ _ _
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