Safe Passage chords by Gibson Brothers

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:

DmDm FF C majorC DmDm FF C majorC DmDm A minorAm C majorC


Verse:

DmDm             FF
A augmentedA long long time ago, where Scotland meets the water
   C majorC                 DmDm
They climbed aboard a schooner headed west,
                   FF
For safe passage they did pray, with their sons and their daughters,
     C majorC
To a new world they hoped to be the best.

They rode the waves for weeks
    FF
To the mouth of the St. Lawrence,
  C majorC               DmDm
And crawled off that boat in Montreal.

Verse:

Generations lived and died,
      FF
Between the river and the border,
       C majorC                DmDm
But from the other side there came a deadly call.

          FF
Far to the south, sabers had been rattled,
    C majorC                 DmDm
It was said that any brave should take a stand,
              FF
Young men loved the fight, the pistol and the saddle,
     C majorC              DmDm   A minorAm  C majorC
So he made his way on down to Dixieland

Chorus:

  A augmentedA                            DmDm
And his mother prayed for him, she prayed for his safe passage,
  A augmentedA                  DmDm
She prayed that he came barely back alive,

DmDm FF C majorC DmDm Dm FF C majorC DmDm

Verse:

DmDm              FF
That boy returned old but got his 40 acres,
     C majorC                   DmDm
And they cleared the hemlock from that low hillside,
                 FF
He built my father's house, and a barn when he was able,
   C majorC                DmDm
Still standing tall to prove he was alive.

             FF
Our daddy told us young, he would he the last one,
  C majorC                DmDm
To raise a livin from that Rocky land,

                 FF
So I cross these many miles, I'm back again too often,
  C majorC               DmDm  A minorAm C majorC
My journey with my guitar in my hand,

Chorus:

   A augmentedA                        DmDm
And my mother prays for me, she prays for my safe passage,
  A augmentedA                 DmDm
She prays that I will make it back alive

Repeat chords of verse then end with A minorAm C majorC DmDm