Land Below The Waves Acoustic chords by Skipinnish

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

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

Key: C majorC

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
A minorAm
Bring to me the morning

And the dawning of the day
    FF       C majorC
Speed up the sun and forward turn
   A minorAm         E minorEm
The clocks that slow our way
    A minorAm
Bring down the moon and shining stars

And hold the night time long
   FF        C majorC
Wake up the larks and bittern, start
  A minorAm   E minorEm    A minorAm
To sing tomorrow's song

Verse:
    A minorAm
Get the ferry, set for sea
  A minorAm
As fast as can be done
   FF        C majorC
Let go the ropes and free our hopes
  A minorAm        E minorEm
Of western skies to come
   A minorAm
The rising sun to starboard

As the boat leaves Oban Bay
   FF        C majorC
Our homeland dreams return in streams
   A minorAm    E minorEm   A minorAm
And fill the dawning day

Chorus:
  C majorC
For I want to go
             A minorAm
Where the great Atlantic roars
      FF       C majorC
From the cliffs of Kennavara
   DmDm      G+G
To majestic Skerryvore
   C majorC
And breathe again the air
        A minorAm
My island body craves
   FF       C majorC
And feel again the freedom
    G+G       C majorC
Of the land below the waves

Verse:
   A minorAm
Like barley in the wind
       A minorAm
We've been scattered far and thin
      FF       C majorC
From the cruelty of the Clearance
    A minorAm        E minorEm
To the pressures we live in
  A minorAm
No matter where we roam

Over land or over foam
   FF         C majorC
The island pulls the children
    A minorAm    E minorEm  A minorAm
Of the barley to come home

Verse:
    A minorAm
See Ben Hynish and Ben Hough
    A minorAm
And the early morning glow
   FF       C majorC
Then houses rising from the sea
  A minorAm      E minorEm
As land begins to show
   A minorAm
You know you're homeward bound

Steaming by the Gunna Sound
   FF        C majorC
With passion then you stand again
 A minorAm    E minorEm   A minorAm
Upon your island ground

Chorus:
  C majorC
For I want to go
             A minorAm
Where the great Atlantic roars
      FF       C majorC
From the cliffs of Kennavara
   DmDm      G+G
To majestic Skerryvore
   C majorC
And breathe again the air
        A minorAm
My island body craves
   FF       C majorC
And feel again the freedom
    G+G       C majorC
Of the land below the waves

Verse:
   A minorAm
The island of Tiree
     A minorAm
And its land and soil and sea
   FF           C majorC
Goes through the bone like fire and stone
  A minorAm         E minorEm
And who you're born to be
    A minorAm
On the world's fickle face

Unyielding anchors to a place
   FF        C majorC
The guiding star of who you are
   A minorAm   E minorEm    A minorAm
Your people and your race

Verse:
       A minorAm
Stand on Kenovay
     A minorAm
Or the shores of Hudson Bay
   FF       C majorC
The wilds of Argentina
    A minorAm         E minorEm
Or New Zealand's earth and clay
   A minorAm
Our seeds are growing wide

But the roots of island pride
   FF       C majorC
Will bring us all together
    A minorAm    E minorEm   A minorAm
On the flooding of the tide

Chorus:
  C majorC
And I want to go
             A minorAm
Where the great Atlantic roars
      FF       C majorC
From the cliffs of Kennavara
   DmDm      G+G
To majestic Skerryvore
   C majorC
And breathe again the air
        A minorAm
My island body craves
   FF       C majorC
And feel again the freedom
    G+G       C majorC
Of the land below the waves


Chorus:
  C majorC
For I want to go
             A minorAm
Where the great Atlantic roars
      FF       C majorC
From the cliffs of Kennavara
   DmDm      G+G
To majestic Skerryvore
   C majorC
And breathe again the air
        A minorAm
My island body craves
   FF       C majorC
And feel again the freedom
    G+G       C majorC
Of the land below the waves