Libertys Sweet Shore chords by Cathie Ryan

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Cathie Ryan - Liberty's Sweet Shore

Capo 2

Intro:
C majorC

Verse 1:
        G/BG/B    FF  C majorC
In this fading light the mainland
        G/BG/B  FF  G+G
Lies vague out on the horizon
 C majorC     G/BG/B     FF G+G FF
A augmentedA lighthouse beaming its welcome
  DmDm       G+G        C majorC   FF G+G
To Gross Isle and liberty’s sweet shore

Verse 2:
  C majorC         G/BG/B      FF  C majorC
For three months and a day we’ve been sailing
          G/BG/B      FF  G+G
Around pinnacles of ice we’ve been steering
      C majorC  G/BG/B    FF G+G FF
Storms and Nor’easters a raging
   DmDm     G+G        C majorC   FF G+G
To deliver us to liberty’s sweet shore

Chorus:
FF          C majorC
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
FF     Dm7Dm7    G+G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
  FF
We left all we know
    A minorAm       C majorC
To this new life we’ll go
FF     G+G     C majorC       FF
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore

Verse 3:
  C majorC    G/BG/B     FF C majorC
Two pounds a head for the passage
       G/BG/B     FF  G+G
With ease our landlord surrendered
  C majorC        G/BG/B     FF G+G FF
And wiped his hands clean as he tendered
    DmDm     G+G       C majorC FF G+G
From a distance he watched us all go

Verse 4:
  C majorC        G/BG/B    FF C majorC
We sailed the fifth day of September
         G/BG/B      FF  G+G
Two hundred poor souls crammed together
     C majorC      G/BG/B      FF G+G FF
From our families and homeland we’re severed
  DmDm       G+G      C majorC  FF G+G
The clothes on our backs all we own

Chorus:
FF          C majorC
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
FF     Dm7Dm7    G+G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
  FF
We left all we know
    A minorAm       C majorC
To this new life we’ll go
FF     G+G     C majorC       FF
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore

Verse 5:
   C majorC       G/BG/B     FF C majorC
We’re bowed down in sickness and hunger
         G/BG/B    FF G+G
We pray for the hand of our maker
  C majorC     G/BG/B    FF G+G FF
My child was lost to a fever
 DmDm         G+G     C majorC   FF G+G
A augmentedA quick prayer, then hauled overboard

Verse 6:
C majorC     G/BG/B      FF  C majorC
Oceans of tears they are falling
        G/BG/B     FF  G+G
In hope and despair both recalling
    C majorC      G/BG/B        FF G+G FF
Now the gulls of St Lawrence they are calling
   DmDm     G+G        C majorC  FF G+G
Soon Quebec and liberty’s sweet shore

Chorus:
FF          C majorC
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
FF     Dm7Dm7    G+G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
  FF
We left all we know
    A minorAm       C majorC
To this new life we’ll go
FF     G+G     C majorC       FF
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore

Chorus:
FF          C majorC
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
FF     Dm7Dm7    G+G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
  FF
We left all we know
    A minorAm       C majorC
To this new life we’ll go
FF     G+G     C majorC       FF C majorC