LOCKSHIRE SOUND
tabbed by Douglas Thompson (jwtjta@aol.com)

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    G    Am     C     D    Em


  G          Am         C           G
I am a young sailor who travels the sea
   G         D           C         D
My fever for prizes will no let me be
     G            Am           C          G
So I cast off the shore like a load off a steed
    G             D        C          D
The circle of the water is all that I need

   G             Am            C         G
Oh dance all ye, dance all ye, water and foam
   G            D              C        D
My bough is the stage for your magic to roam
    G           Am          C           G
And run all ye, run all ye, thunder and rain
   G              D            C            D
My sails hold the scars but do not hold the pain

  G          Am           C             G
I tighten my ropes to the wind that has blowed
G          D          C                  D
Giving the rudder the strength that he's owed
      G          Am            C          G
And I travel, no peace, to the land I was born
G        D          C            D
Hoping I will not receive her forlorn


  G         Am          C             G
I courted a maiden, not one year it's been
    G           D            C         D
She wants to be married, her dowery to spin
   G         Am         C                G
"A family of boys and a girl," she would say,
       G       D             C           D
"Would satisfy hunger as the youth has delayed"

        G           Am         C        G
But the mist of the harbour is solid as stone
    G           D              C         D
"If you don't return from your journeys alone
           G     Am         C         G
I'll spend every evening on Lockshire Sound
G          D              C            D
Gazing for sails that are now homeward bound"



G  Am  C  G
G  D   C  D
G  Am  C  G
Em     D


  G             Am        C           G
I fear that my absence is longer than said
     G        D               C           D
Been almost a year since I've slept in my bed
    G         Am            C         G
But as I am approaching the Lockshire Sound
  G            D      C            D
I hope that my maiden soon will be found

      G              Am       C           G
"Oh excuse me, young lady, do you know of she?
    G      D          C            D
For I was away riding waves of the sea"
 G         Am       C        G
"Yes, I do know the lady you speak,
    G          D            C            D
I attended her wedding with flowers last week"

    G             Am        C         G
"Oh say it, young lady, you cannot be true
    G        D           C            D
For I have returned as I said I would do"
    G          Am        C           G
But time does erode some firmness of soil
  G            D        C           D
A sapling will grow, if not it will toil


    G          Am          C         G
Her hunger for marriage, a family, indeed
    G           D         C           D
Was true to her word, was true to her need
    G          Am         C            G
But I was just written in sand for the day
    G         D              G
Let Lockshire Sound wash it away

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G  D   C  D
G  Am  C  G
Em     D
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