Far From The Home I Love chords by Fiddler On The Roof

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Written by Jerry Bock
Music by Sheldon Harnick

Chord   EADGBe
E7b13   020110

Verse 1:
A minorAm             C majorC
How can I hope to make you understand
FF   Bb majorBb E7E7   E7b13 E7E7
Why I do what I do
A minorAm           C majorC
Why I must travel to a distant land
DmDm      E7E7   A augmentedA
Far from the home I love

Verse 2:
Amaj7Amaj7       C#m7C#m7
Once I was happily content to be
Bm7Bm7    E7E7
As I was, where I was
Amaj7Amaj7            C#m7C#m7
Close to the people who are close to me
Bm7Bm7     E7E7   A augmentedA
Here in the home I love

Bridge:
Bm7Bm7    E7E7     Amaj7Amaj7   A major 6A6
Who could see that a man would come
     Bm7Bm7          C#m7C#m7
Who would change the shape of my dreams
Dmaj7Dmaj7   C#m7C#m7  Bm7Bm7    Amaj7Amaj7
Helpless, now, I stand with him
Bm7Bm7   C#m7C#m7 Dmaj7Dmaj7    E7E7
Watching older dreams grow dim

Verse 3:
A minorAm          C majorC
Oh, what a melancholy choice this is
FF       E7E7
Wanting home, wanting him
A minorAm            C majorC
Closing my heart to every hope but his
DmDm     E7E7   A augmentedA
Leaving the home I love

Verse 4:
Amaj7Amaj7              C#m7C#m7
There where my heart has settled long ago
Bm7Bm7    E7E7
I must go, I must go
A minorAm            C majorC
Who could imagine I'd be wand'ring so
F6F6      E7E7   A minorAm   C7C7
Far from the home I love - Yet,
DmDm      E MajorE     A minorAm
There with my love, I'm home