"The Blanket Of Night"
E
Paper cup of the boat
E A
Heaving chest of the sea
C
Carry both of us
A E
Carry her, carry me
E
From the place we were born
E A
To the land of the free
C
Carry both of us
A E
Carry her, carry me
A C A
The o---cea n
A B
That bears us from our home
E B
Could save u s
B A
Or take us for it's own
The danger
B
That life should lead us here
E B
My an gel
E
Could I have steered us clear?
E C
Gone, the light from her eyes
E
With the lives that we made
C
Just the two of us
A G E
In the night on the waves
E C
Moving silent her lips
E
By the moon's only light
C
Sowing silver prayers
A G E
In the blanket of night
A C A
The o cea n
B
That bears us from our home
E B
Could save u s
A
Or take us for it's own
C A
The dan ger
B
That life should lead us here
E B
My an ge l
E
Could I have steered us clear?
E
Paper cup of the boat
E A
Heaving chest of the sea
C
Carry both of us
A E
Or, swallow her, swallow me