D#m C#
Dear wind that shakes the barley free,
D#m C# C#/C A#m
Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill her sails.
D#m C#
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
D#m C#
Forsake her not in times of storm,
D#m C# C#/C A#m
protect her oaken beams from harm, fill her sails.
D#m C#
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
D#m C#
Whether he be in Africa
D#m C# C#/C A#m
Or deep asleep in India, fill his dreams,
D#m C#
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
D#m C#
Dear snow white gulls upon the wing,
D#m C# C#/C A#m
I, like you, are lamenting, for my love.
D#m C#
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
D#m C#
And in my chariot of sleep,
D#m C# C#/C A#m
I ride the vast and dreamy deep, deep sea.
D#m C#
I awake a-weary on the shore.
D#m C#
For seven years and seven days,
D#m C# C#/C A#m
no man has seen my woman's ways, dear God.
D#m C#
I a-weary cry upon the shore.
D#m C#
Along the shingle beach I go,
D#m C# C#/C A#m
the wind about me as I make my way,
D#m C#
to my weary dream upon my bed.
D#m C#
Dear wind that shakes the barley free,
D#m C# C#/C A#m
Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill her sails.
D#m C#
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
D#m C#
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
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