Land Below The Waves Acoustic chords by Skipinnish

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
Am
Bring to me the morning

And the dawning of the day
    F       C
Speed up the sun and forward turn
   Am         Em
The clocks that slow our way
    Am
Bring down the moon and shining stars

And hold the night time long
   F        C
Wake up the larks and bittern, start
  Am   Em    Am
To sing tomorrow's song

Verse:
    Am
Get the ferry, set for sea
  Am
As fast as can be done
   F        C
Let go the ropes and free our hopes
  Am        Em
Of western skies to come
   Am
The rising sun to starboard

As the boat leaves Oban Bay
   F        C
Our homeland dreams return in streams
   Am    Em   Am
And fill the dawning day

Chorus:
  C
For I want to go
             Am
Where the great Atlantic roars
      F       C
From the cliffs of Kennavara
   Dm      G
To majestic Skerryvore
   C
And breathe again the air
        Am
My island body craves
   F       C
And feel again the freedom
    G       C
Of the land below the waves

Verse:
   Am
Like barley in the wind
       Am
We've been scattered far and thin
      F       C
From the cruelty of the Clearance
    Am        Em
To the pressures we live in
  Am
No matter where we roam

Over land or over foam
   F         C
The island pulls the children
    Am    Em  Am
Of the barley to come home

Verse:
    Am
See Ben Hynish and Ben Hough
    Am
And the early morning glow
   F       C
Then houses rising from the sea
  Am      Em
As land begins to show
   Am
You know you're homeward bound

Steaming by the Gunna Sound
   F        C
With passion then you stand again
 Am    Em   Am
Upon your island ground

Chorus:
  C
For I want to go
             Am
Where the great Atlantic roars
      F       C
From the cliffs of Kennavara
   Dm      G
To majestic Skerryvore
   C
And breathe again the air
        Am
My island body craves
   F       C
And feel again the freedom
    G       C
Of the land below the waves

Verse:
   Am
The island of Tiree
     Am
And its land and soil and sea
   F           C
Goes through the bone like fire and stone
  Am         Em
And who you're born to be
    Am
On the world's fickle face

Unyielding anchors to a place
   F        C
The guiding star of who you are
   Am   Em    Am
Your people and your race

Verse:
       Am
Stand on Kenovay
     Am
Or the shores of Hudson Bay
   F       C
The wilds of Argentina
    Am         Em
Or New Zealand's earth and clay
   Am
Our seeds are growing wide

But the roots of island pride
   F       C
Will bring us all together
    Am    Em   Am
On the flooding of the tide

Chorus:
  C
And I want to go
             Am
Where the great Atlantic roars
      F       C
From the cliffs of Kennavara
   Dm      G
To majestic Skerryvore
   C
And breathe again the air
        Am
My island body craves
   F       C
And feel again the freedom
    G       C
Of the land below the waves


Chorus:
  C
For I want to go
             Am
Where the great Atlantic roars
      F       C
From the cliffs of Kennavara
   Dm      G
To majestic Skerryvore
   C
And breathe again the air
        Am
My island body craves
   F       C
And feel again the freedom
    G       C
Of the land below the waves