Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Key: FF
Difficulty: Novice
Intro:
DbDb FF C majorC C majorC
Verse:
FF
There's a place I'm gonna leave to
FF
When all this questioning is through
Bb majorBb
I'm gonna set my course to somewhere further North
Bb majorBb
Than my eyes have ever viewed
FF
And though I know that the thought proceeds me
FF
I know that others seek it too
Bb majorBb
But when I get where the needle leads me
Bb majorBb FF A minorAm
Well I swear, and I swear, you'll never lead me away again
FF
And in the time when the peace of islands
FF
Was first by human hand disturbed
Bb majorBb
They built their houses and they said obedience
Bb majorBb
Was all the lives of men were worth
FF
And in the shadow of the temperance
FF
They laid boundaries in the dirt
Bb majorBb
And when the door had a narrow entrance
Bb majorBb FF
With their hands on their shirts they would pray for the non-believers
Chorus:
DbDb
And there's a place called North
F minorFm
And they're gathering there to sing
C majorC
And I knock three times and beg them
F minorFm
But they will not let me in
DbDb
And "Oh, my girl" they say
F minorFm
"You're the carrier to no gain"
C majorC
But I lay, what I can, somewhere North of this and
FF A minorAm
Would you turn me away again?
Verse:
FF
And do you go where the needle leads to
FF
And when you get there will you change?
Bb majorBb
Out where the nights are soft
Bb majorBb
And now you go because you think that Paradise should be tamed
FF
And how you live is by a map of humanity
FF
And now you grip it 'cause you think that it saves
Bb majorBb
But I've seen what you see, it looks different to me
Bb majorBb FF
I see lights to the shore and all these hearts beating other rhythms
Bb majorBb
Now they die to be born
FF
And all their mysteries are dying with them
Chorus:
DbDb
And there's a place called North
F minorFm
And you're gathering there to sing
C majorC
And I knock three times and beg you
F minorFm
But you will not let me in
DbDb
But though I love so hard
F minorFm
Now I'm the carrier to this gate
C majorC
And I lay, what I can, somewhere North of us and
Bb majorBb F minorFm
Would you turn me away again?
Bb majorBb F minorFm
DbDb
And would these winds would lift
F minorFm
And they carry me to your door
C majorC
And I knock three times and tell you
F minorFm
I can't help where I was born
DbDb
But don't I love enough
F minorFm
Isn't holiness where it forms?
C majorC
If I take, what I have, to the North
Bb majorBb F minorFm
Is there room on your piece of Heaven?
Bb majorBb F minorFm
Bb majorBb F minorFm
Bb majorBb C majorC
FF
Oh would you turn me away again?