The long
journey home
G C D
1. If on every ocean the ship is a throne,
G
C G
C Am D
and
for each mast cut down, another sapling is grown,
G C
G
then
I could believe that I'm bound to find
C Em D G
a
better life than I left behind.
C G
Bm
But as you ascend the ladder,
G Em Am - D
look out below where you tread !
G C
G
For the colours bled as they overflowed,
C Em D
G
red, white and blue, green, white
and gold.
+ C - G - D
- G
G C D
2. So I had to leave from my country of birth,
G
C G C
Am D
as
for each child grown tall, another lies in the earth.
G C G
And for every rail that we
laid in the loam,
C Em D
G
there's
a thousand miles of the long journey home.
+ CHORUS
+ instrumental = verse 2
+ CHORUS
+ C - F - C - F - C
- G - C - F - C - F - Am - G - C
F C Em
But as you ascend the ladder,
C Am Dm - G
look out below where you tread !
C
F C
For the colours bled as they overflowed,
F Am G C
red, white and blue, green, white
and gold.
C F
C
+ For the colours bled
as they overflowed,
F Am G C
red,
white and blue, green, white and gold.
(orig.
= capo 2nd) (Tommy Fleming)