Chords for Ralph McTell - The Ferryman

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_ [A] Oh, _ [F] the traveller _ [G] moving _ [Em] on the land, _
_ [Am] Behold, _ [F] I give you, [G] I give you the [Em] travelling man,
And he's very [Am] heavy laden, _ [F] With the questions in his burden,
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Lo, _ and I give you the travelling [Am] man, [E] _ _ _ He has [A#] crossed the mountains,
_ _ He has fought [D] its stream, _ _ _ He has [E] spent a long time,
_ Surviving on [A] his _ dreams, _ And many [Am] times he's tried to [Em] lighten up his heavy [Gm] load,
[D] But his [A] compromises fail him, [Em] And he ends back [F#] on the road, _ _
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_ Oh, [Am] the traveller he is [F] weary, [G] The travelling man is [Em] tired,
For [Am] the road is never [F] ending, In his [G] fear he has [Em] cried,
A loud for a [Am] saviour, And [F] in vain for a teacher,
_ [G] Someone to lighten [E] up the load.
_ _ [Am] _ And he's heard the sounds [A#] of war, _ _ In a gentle shower [D] of [D] rain,
_ And the whisperings of [E]
despair, _ _ _ That he could not [A]
explain,
_ _ The reason for his [Am] journey, Or [Bm] the reason it [Gm] began,
[D] Or was there any [A] reason, [Em] For the travelling [F#] man?
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_ _ [Am] last he reached a [F] river, [G] So beautiful and [Em] wide,
[Am] But the current was so [F] strong, He could not [G] reach the other [Em] side,
And the weary [Am] travelling man, [F]
Looked for a ferryman,
[G] Strong enough to row against [E] the tide,
_ _ [Am] _ And the ferryman [A#] was old, _ _ But he moved the boat [D] so well,
_ _ Or did the river move the [E] boat?
_ _ _ _ The traveller could [A] not tell,
_ _ So [D] the ferryman you're [Am] weary, And [Bm] the answers that you [E] seek,
[D] Are in the singing [A] river, [Em] Listen humbly it [F#] will speak. _ _ _
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Or the traveller [F] closed his eyes, [G] And he listened and he heard,
[Am] Only the [F] river murmuring, [G] And the beating [Em] of his heart,
[C] Then he heard the river laughing, And he [F] heard the river crying,
[Em] And in it was the [G] beauty, And the sadness of the [E]
world,
_ _ Then he heard the sounds of [A#] dying, _ _ _ But he heard the sounds of [D]
birth,
_ _ And slowly his [E] _
ears, Heard all the sounds [A] of earth,
_ And the [D] sounds blended [Am] together, And [G] they became a [A#] whole,
[Dm] And the rhythm was [A] his heartbeat, [Em] To the music [F#] in his soul. _ _ _ _ _
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[Am] And the river had no [F] beginning, As [G] it flowed into [Em] the seas,
[Am] And the seas filled [F] the clouds, And [G] the rains filled [Em] the streams,
[C] And slowly as the sun rise, [F] He opened up his eyes,
To find [G] the ferryman had gone, The boat moved gently on [A] the tide,
_ _ _ And the river flowed [A#] within him, _ _ _ And with it he [D] was one,
_ _ And the seas moved round the [E] _ earth, And the earth round [A] the sun,
_ And [D] the traveller was the [F#] river, Was the [Bm] boat and the [A#] ferryman,
Was the journey and [A] the song, [Em] That the singing river [F#] sang.
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