Safe Upon The Shore chords by Great Big Sea

Chords with lyrics

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

Verse 1:

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A augmentedA girl upon the shore did ask a favour of the sea;
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"Return my blue eyed sailor boy safely back to me
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Forgive me if I ask too much, I will not ask for more
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But I shall weep until he sleeps safe upon the shore."

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As though the sea did hear her plea, a vision did appear
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The drifting tip of some wrecked ship came floating ever near
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A augmentedA figure there did cling to it, approaching more and more
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As if to ride on some strange tide, safe upon the shore

Chorus:

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So give a sailor not your heart
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Lest sorrow you do seek;
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Let true love not be torn apart
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By favours from the sea

Verse 2:

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My love, she cried as she espied the figure on the spar
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His clean white shirt was drenched and torn, he must have floated far
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She thought with bliss how she would kiss the lips she did adore
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And oh, how sweet to see his feet safe upon the shore

Chorus:

  G+G       C majorC
So give a sailor not your heart
   G+G       D MajorD
Lest sorrow you do seek;
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Let true love not be torn apart
  C majorC        G+G
By favours from the sea

Verse 3:

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As she drew near, she felt the fear that something was astray
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His mouth was slack and his blue eyes stared blindly at the day
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And in a daze, she turned her gaze from the corpse the driftwood bore
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And the cold cold sea pushed ruthlessly, safe upon the shore


  G+G       C majorC
So give a sailor not your heart
   G+G       D MajorD
Lest sorrow you do seek;
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Let true love not be torn apart
  C majorC        G+G
By favours from the sea

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Now fishermen, they cast their nets like miners pan for gold
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And sailors push off from the docks and pray the gales will hold
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The sea just sits silently, but sometimes, she does more
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And someone weeps as her love sleeps safe upon the shore