The Winter Crossing chords by Billy Joel

• Difficulty: Advanced

♫ Intro:

Gm



♫ Verse 1:
                 Bb/C   Cm9
When I was just a boy I dreamt
    Ab   Eb      F
I'd run away to sea
     Gm               Bb/C    Cm9
And sign aboard some merchant ship
    Ab    Eb    F     Bb
And sail across   the ocean

♫ Verse 2:
    Gm         Bb/C   Cm9
When I became a man I put
     Ab       Eb     F
My childhood things away
     Gm              Bb/C    Cm9
And gave up all the dreams I had
    Ab     Eb F     Bb
Of sailing on   the ocean

♫ Chorus 1:
   C7/Bb
So long, so long
  F/A             Dm7                Gsus4 G
I wave goodbye to my old friend the sea
     Bb7/Ab          Gm7
It's winter time and you know
 Gm         Cm7 Cm     G/D D
I'm not what I used to be

♫ Verse 3:
    Gm             Bb/C  Cm9
Sometimes I feel so far away
     Ab      Eb      F
From all the ones I love
     Gm               Bb/C      Cm9
The storm that raged along this coast
     Ab     Eb  F       Bb
Keep every ship   from sailing

♫ Verse 4:
    Gm
And who would brave
  Bb/C  Cm9     Ab Eb    F
A voyage in the January gales
    Gm           Bb/C   Cm9
The boy who ran away to sea
     Ab       Eb F   Bb
Can make the winter crossing

♫ Chorus 2:
    C7/Bb
Come on, come on
    F/A
He cried, come with me
Dm7               Gsus4 G
    To the other shore
    Bb7/Ab              Gm7     Gm
But I've been gone too long to make
Cm7          Cm      G/D D
    The crossing anymore

♫ Outro:
Gm Bb/C Cm9 Ab Eb F Gm Bb/C Cm9 Ab Eb F Bb

Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Ebmaj7 A7sus4 A D D/C G G/C F Eb6 Gm/D D7 Gm