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

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Written by Jerry Bock
Music by Sheldon Harnick

Chord   EADGBe
E7b13   020110

Verse 1:
Am             C
How can I hope to make you understand
F   Bb E7   E7b13 E7
Why I do what I do
Am           C
Why I must travel to a distant land
Dm      E7   A
Far from the home I love

Verse 2:
Amaj7       C#m7
Once I was happily content to be
Bm7    E7
As I was, where I was
Amaj7            C#m7
Close to the people who are close to me
Bm7     E7   A
Here in the home I love

Bridge:
Bm7    E7     Amaj7   A6
Who could see that a man would come
     Bm7          C#m7
Who would change the shape of my dreams
Dmaj7   C#m7  Bm7    Amaj7
Helpless, now, I stand with him
Bm7   C#m7 Dmaj7    E7
Watching older dreams grow dim

Verse 3:
Am          C
Oh, what a melancholy choice this is
F       E7
Wanting home, wanting him
Am            C
Closing my heart to every hope but his
Dm     E7   A
Leaving the home I love

Verse 4:
Amaj7              C#m7
There where my heart has settled long ago
Bm7    E7
I must go, I must go
Am            C
Who could imagine I'd be wand'ring so
F6      E7   Am   C7
Far from the home I love - Yet,
Dm      E     Am
There with my love, I'm home