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