The Stolen Child chords by The Waterboys

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
G+G D MajorD E minorEm  G+G D MajorD E minorEm
C majorC G+G A minorAm  C majorC G+G A minorAm C majorC

Chorus:

   G+G     D MajorD      E minorEm
Come away, human child to the water

   G+G     D MajorD      E minorEm         C majorC
Come away, human child to the water and the wild

    G+G          A minorAm  C majorC
With a faery, hand in hand

    G+G          A minorAm      C majorC         G+G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Verse: (Spoken)

           D MajorD    E minorEm              G+G
Where dips the rocky highland of Sleuth Wood in the lake

          D MajorD       E minorEm
There lies a leafy island, where flapping herons wake

         C majorC   G+G
The drowsy water rats

             A minorAm
There we've hid our faery vats

        C majorC  G+G
Full of berries

A minorAm          C majorC  G+G
And of reddest stolen cherries

Chorus:

   G+G     D MajorD      E minorEm
Come away, human child to the water

   G+G     D MajorD      E minorEm         C majorC
Come away, human child to the water and the wild

    G+G          A minorAm  C majorC
With a faery, hand in hand

    G+G          A minorAm      C majorC         G+G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Verse: (Spoken)

         D MajorD           E minorEm             G+G
Where the wave of moonlight glosses the dim grey sands with light

      D MajorD          E minorEm
Far off by furthest Rosses, we foot it all the night

           C majorC              G+G
Weaving olden dances, mingling hands and mingling glances

            A minorAm
Till the moon has taken flight

         C majorC
To and fro we leap and chase the frothy bubbles

G+G                  A minorAm
While the world is full of troubles

        C majorC
And is anxious in its sleep

Chorus:

   G+G     D MajorD      E minorEm
Come away, human child to the water

   G+G     D MajorD      E minorEm         C majorC
Come away, human child to the water and the wild

    G+G          A minorAm  C majorC
With a faery, hand in hand

    G+G          A minorAm      C majorC         G+G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Verse: (Spoken)

     D MajorD           E minorEm                G+G
Where the wandering water gushes from the hills above Glen Carr

         D MajorD                 E minorEm
In pools among the rushes that scarce could bathe a star

            C majorC               G+G
We seek for slumbering trout and whispering in their ears

    A minorAm          C majorC
We give them unquiet dreams

            G+G           A minorAm
Leaning softly out from ferns that drop their tears

            C majorC
Over the young streams

Instrumental:
G+G D MajorD E minorEm  G+G D MajorD E minorEm
C majorC G+G A minorAm  C majorC G+G A minorAm C majorC G+G

Verse: (Spoken)

     D MajorD       E minorEm        G+G
Away with us he's going, the solemn-eyed

            D MajorD       E minorEm             C majorC
He'll hear no more the lowing of the calves on the warm hillside

           G+G  A minorAm
Or the kettle on the hob, sing peace into his breast

  C majorC         G+G   A minorAm          C majorC
Or see the brown mice bob, around and around the oatmeal-chest

Chorus:

    G+G        D MajorD       E minorEm
For he comes, the human child, to the water

  G+G        D MajorD      E minorEm         C majorC
He comes, the human child to the water and the wild

    G+G          A minorAm  C majorC
With a faery, hand in hand

    G+G         A minorAm      C majorC         G+G
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand

Chorus:

   D MajorD    E minorEm  G+G
Human child

   D MajorD    E minorEm  C majorC
Human child

    G+G          A minorAm  C majorC
With a faery, hand in hand

    G+G         A minorAm      C majorC
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand

C majorC
Than he can understand, he can understand

Outro:
G+G D MajorD E minorEm C majorC