The Winter Crossing chords by Billy Joel

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Advanced

♫ Intro:

G minorGm


♫ Verse 1:
         Bb/CBb/C  Cm9Cm9
When I was just a boy I dreamt
  AbAb  Eb MajorEb   FF
I'd run away to sea
   G minorGm        Bb/CBb/C  Cm9Cm9
And sign aboard some merchant ship
  AbAb  Eb MajorEb  FF   Bb majorBb
And sail across  the ocean

♫ Verse 2:
  G minorGm     Bb/CBb/C  Cm9Cm9
When I became a man I put
   AbAb    Eb MajorEb   FF
My childhood things away
   G minorGm       Bb/CBb/C  Cm9Cm9
And gave up all the dreams I had
  AbAb   Eb MajorEb FF   Bb majorBb
Of sailing on  the ocean

♫ Chorus 1:
  C7/Bb
So long, so long
 F/AF/A       Dm7Dm7        Gsus4Gsus4 G+G
I wave goodbye to my old friend the sea
   Bb7/AbBb7/Ab     Gm7Gm7
It's winter time and you know
 G minorGm     Cm7Cm7 C minorCm   G/DG/D D MajorD
I'm not what I used to be

♫ Verse 3:
  G minorGm       Bb/CBb/C Cm9Cm9
Sometimes I feel so far away
   AbAb   Eb MajorEb   FF
From all the ones I love
   G minorGm        Bb/CBb/C   Cm9Cm9
The storm that raged along this coast
   AbAb   Eb MajorEb FF    Bb majorBb
Keep every ship  from sailing

♫ Verse 4:
  G minorGm
And who would brave
 Bb/CBb/C Cm9Cm9   AbAb Eb MajorEb  FF
A augmentedA voyage in the January gales
  G minorGm      Bb/CBb/C  Cm9Cm9
The boy who ran away to sea
   AbAb    Eb MajorEb FF  Bb majorBb
Can make the winter crossing

♫ Chorus 2:
  C7/Bb
Come on, come on
  F/AF/A
He cried, come with me
Dm7Dm7        Gsus4Gsus4 G+G
  To the other shore
  Bb7/AbBb7/Ab       Gm7Gm7   G minorGm
But I've been gone too long to make
Cm7Cm7     C minorCm   G/DG/D D MajorD
  The crossing anymore

♫ Outro:
G minorGm Bb/CBb/C Cm9Cm9 AbAb Eb MajorEb FF G minorGm Bb/CBb/C Cm9Cm9 AbAb Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb

Fmaj7Fmaj7 Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 A7sus4A7sus4 A augmentedA D MajorD D/C G+G G/C FF Eb6Eb6 Gm/D D7D7 G minorGm