Chords for Safe Passage

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[G] _ [F] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [F] _ _
[Dm] _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
Well a long, long time ago, [F] Scotland meets Water, [C] they climbed on board a [Dm] schooner in
the west.
For safe hast they did pray, [F] with their sons in the dark, [C] to new world that
they hoped [Dm] be the best.
_ Rode the waves for weeks, [F] into the mouth of the St.
Lawrence,
[C] they crawled off that boat in [Dm] Montreal. _
A generation lived [F] to love the Lord, [C] but from
the other side became [Dm] a deadly call.
_ Far to the [D] south, [F] the saviors had been wracked,
[C] it was said that any brave should [Dm] take a stand.
_ But _ [C] [F] the best one in the South, [C] stood meekly
on that [Dm] distant land.
_ [C] _
_ _ [A] And his mother prayed for him, but she prayed for his safe [Dm] past.
_ [A] She prayed till he came barely back alive.
[Dm] _
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[C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
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[Dm] _ _ That boy returned home, [F] but he got his 48ers,
[C] and declared the handlock from that [Dm] low hillside.
He built my father's house, and [F] the barn he
seemed disabled, [C] still standing tall was proof he [Dm] was alive.
_ _ Daddy told us young, [D] [F] that he'd
be the last one, [C] to raise a living from that [Dm] rocky land.
So I crossed these many miles,
I'm [F] thinking too often, [C] my journey will get caught [Dm] in my head.
_ [C] _
_ _ [A] Mother prays for me, she
prays for my safe [Dm] past, _ [A] she prays that I'll make it [Dm] home alive. _
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[C] _ [F] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
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[Dm] _ _ [A] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Am] _