Albatross chords by Judy Collins

Chords with lyrics

Intro C# minorC#m F# minorF#m

            C# minorC#m
The lady comes to the gate
BB            C# minorC#m
Dressed in lavender and leather
C# minorC#m
Looking North to the sea
BB
She finds the weather fine
         A augmentedA
She hears the steeple bells
  A augmentedA                     C# minorC#m
Ringing through the orchard all the way from town
BB           A augmentedA
She watches seagulls fly
 A augmentedA
Silver on the ocean stitching through the waves
          C# minorC#m
The edges of the sky
   B minorBm         D MajorD           A augmentedA
Many people wander up the hills from all around you
   E MajorE           Amaj7Amaj7         E MajorE
Making up your memories and thinking they have found you
    C# minorC#m     G# minorG#m   A augmentedA            E MajorE
They cover you with veils of wonder as if you were a bride
    C# minorC#m     G# minorG#m    A augmentedA             E MajorE
Young men holding violets are curious to know if you have cried
   A augmentedA    E MajorE    A augmentedA    E MajorE  A augmentedA  E MajorE     A augmentedA  E MajorE
And tell you why and ask you why, either way you answer

E MajorE                Amaj7Amaj7      E MajorE
Lace around the collars of the blouses of the ladies
E MajorE            Amaj7Amaj7      E MajorE
Flowers from a Spanish friend of the family
   C# minorC#m        G# minorG#m     Amaj7Amaj7
The embroidery of your life holds you in and keeps you out
    E MajorE    C# minorC#m         G# minorG#m
But you survive, imprisoned in your bones
       Amaj7Amaj7          E MajorE
Behind the isinglass windows of your eyes

G# minorG#m           C# minorC#m             A augmentedA
And in the night, the iron wheels rolling through the rain
     A augmentedA            C# minorC#m
Down the hills through the long grass to the sea
           G# minorG#m     A minorAm
And in the dark, the hard bells ringing with pain
A augmentedA        C# minorC#m  BB
Come away alone

 C# minorC#m       BB             C# minorC#m
Even now by the gate with your long hair blowing
          BB
And the colors of the day that lie along your arms
    A augmentedA                   BB
You must barter your life to make sure you are living
           A augmentedA
And the crowd that has come, you give them the colors
A augmentedA                  C# minorC#m
And the bells and the wind and the dream

E MajorE
Will there never be a prince
Amaj7Amaj7               E MajorE
Who rides along the sea and the mountains?
E MajorE              Amaj7Amaj7         E MajorE
Scattering the sand and the foam into amethyst fountains
C# minorC#m      G# minorG#m       A augmentedA           E MajorE
Riding up the hills from the beach in the long summer grass
C# minorC#m      G# minorG#m        A augmentedA          E MajorE
Holding the sun in his hands and shattering the isinglass

B minorBm                D MajorD           A augmentedA
Day and night and day again and people come and go away forever
      C# minorC#m   G# minorG#m            A augmentedA      E MajorE
While the shining summer sea dances in the glass of your mirror
      C# minorC#m   G# minorG#m     A augmentedA             E MajorE
While you search the waves for love and your visions for a sign
   C# minorC#m      G# minorG#m         A augmentedA            E MajorE
The knot of tears around your throat is crystallizing into your design

      G# minorG#m     C# minorC#m     A augmentedA
And in the night, the iron wheels rolling through the rain
     A augmentedA              C# minorC#m
Down the hills through the long grass to the sea
            G# minorG#m     A augmentedA
And in the dark, the hard bells ringing with pain
A augmentedA                    C# minorC#m
Come away alone, come away alone with me