39 chords by Pretty Maids

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

|G/BG/B G/C D MajorD  |E minorEm C majorC |Cmaj7Cmaj7 D MajorD |G/BG/B G/C G+G  |
|G/BG/B G/C D MajorD  |E minorEm C majorC |Cmaj7Cmaj7 D MajorD |G+G


🎸 Verse 1:
    D MajorD               E minorEm
In the year of thirty nine assembled here the volunteers
    C majorC       G+G     D MajorD
In the days when the lands were few
     E minorEm     E minor 7Em7     C majorC
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
  Dsus4Dsus4  D MajorD     G+G
The sweetest sight ever seen

    D MajorD              B7B7
And the night followed day, and the story tellers say
     E minorEm         A minorAm
That the score brave souls inside
    G+G             D MajorD
Oh for many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
C majorC      E minorEm  C majorC   D MajorD    C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
Ne'er looked back, never feared, never cried

🎸 Chorus:
     G+G             C majorC      G+G
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
     G+G        D MajorD
Don't you hear me calling you
      G+G    B7B7   E minorEm
Write your letters in the sand
G+G    C majorC   G+G     A minorAm
For the day I take your hand
    G/BG/B  G/C  D MajorD       G+G
In the land that our grandchildren knew


🎸 Interlude:
|Eb MajorEb   |Eb MajorEb   |C minorCm   |C minorCm     |
|A augmentedA   |A augmentedA   |C majorC   |F# minorF#m  C majorC  |
|A minorAm   |E MajorE   |Bb majorBb   |Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb C minorCm FF |G+G


🎸 Verse 2:
    D MajorD             E minorEm
In the year of thirty nine came a ship came from the blue
     C majorC     G+G     D MajorD
The volunteers came home that day
     E minorEm     E minor 7Em7     C majorC
And they bring good news from a world so newly born
       Dsus4Dsus4   D MajorD    G+G
Though their hearts so heavily weigh

    D MajorD               B7B7
Now the earth is old and grey, little darling we'll away
    E minorEm        A minorAm
But my love this cannot be
    G+G              D MajorD
For so many years have gone now I'm older but a year
   C majorC    E minorEm  C majorC     D MajorD   C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
Your mother's eyes from your eyes - cry to me

🎸 Chorus:
     G+G             C majorC      G+G
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
     G+G        D MajorD
Don't you hear me calling you
      G+G    B7B7   E minorEm
Write your letters in the sand
G+G    C majorC   G+G     A minorAm
For the day I take your hand
    G/BG/B   G/C  D MajorD       G+G  D MajorD
In the land that our grandchildren knew


🎸 Chorus:
     G+G             C majorC      G+G
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
     G+G        D MajorD
Don't you hear me calling you
     G+G    B7B7   E minorEm
All your letters in the sand
G+G   C majorC    G+G       A minorAm
Cannot heal me like your your hand
    E minorEm      D MajorD
For my life, still ahead, pity me


🎸 Outro:
|G/BG/B G/C D MajorD |E minorEm C majorC |Cmaj7Cmaj7 D MajorD |G+G