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