Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Difficulty: Novice
Intro:
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC
Verse:
D MajorD C majorC G+G
What will you do, love, when I am going
C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G
With white sails flowing, the seas beyond?
C majorC D MajorD C majorC G+G
What will you do, love, when waves divide us
C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G
And friends they chide us for being fond?
Verse:
D MajorD C majorC G+G C majorC A minorAm
Though waves divide us, and friends be chiding
D7D7 G+G C majorC D MajorD
In faith abiding, I'll still be true
G+G C majorC D MajorD C majorC G+G
And I'll pray for you on the stormy ocean
D MajorD C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G
In deep devotion, that's what I'll do
Verse:
C majorC D MajorD C majorC G+G
What would you do, love, if distant tidings
C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G
Your fond confidings should undermine?
C majorC D MajorD C majorC G+G
And I, abiding 'neath sultry skies
C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G
Should think other eyes were as bright as thine?
Verse:
D MajorD C majorC G+G C majorC A minorAm
Oh, say it not__, though guilt and shame
D7D7 G+G C majorC D MajorD
Were on your name, I would still be true
G+G C majorC D MajorD C majorC G+G
But that heart of yours, should another share it
D MajorD C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G
I could not bear it, what would I do?
Verse:
C majorC D MajorD C majorC G+G
What would you do, love, when home returning
C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G
With hopes high burning, with wealth for you
C majorC D MajorD C majorC G+G
If my barque which bounded o'er the foreign foam
C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G
Should be lost near home__? What would you do?
Verse:
D MajorD C majorC G+G C majorC A minorAm
So you were spared, I'd bless the morrow
D7D7 G+G C majorC D MajorD
In want and sorrow, that left me you
G+G C majorC D MajorD C majorC G+G
And I'd welcome you from the wasting billow
D MajorD C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G
My heart, your pillow, that's what I'll do