The Stolen Child chords by The Waterboys

Intro:
G D Em  G D Em
C G Am  C G Am C

Chorus:

   G     D      Em
Come away, human child to the water

   G     D      Em         C
Come away, human child to the water and the wild

    G          Am  C
With a faery, hand in hand

    G          Am      C         G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Verse: (Spoken)

           D    Em              G
Where dips the rocky highland of Sleuth Wood in the lake

          D       Em
There lies a leafy island, where flapping herons wake

         C   G
The drowsy water rats

             Am
There we've hid our faery vats

        C  G
Full of berries

Am          C  G
And of reddest stolen cherries

Chorus:

   G     D      Em
Come away, human child to the water

   G     D      Em         C
Come away, human child to the water and the wild

    G          Am  C
With a faery, hand in hand

    G          Am      C         G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Verse: (Spoken)

         D           Em             G
Where the wave of moonlight glosses the dim grey sands with light

      D          Em
Far off by furthest Rosses, we foot it all the night

           C              G
Weaving olden dances, mingling hands and mingling glances

            Am
Till the moon has taken flight

         C
To and fro we leap and chase the frothy bubbles

G                  Am
While the world is full of troubles

        C
And is anxious in its sleep

Chorus:

   G     D      Em
Come away, human child to the water

   G     D      Em         C
Come away, human child to the water and the wild

    G          Am  C
With a faery, hand in hand

    G          Am      C         G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Verse: (Spoken)

     D           Em                G
Where the wandering water gushes from the hills above Glen Carr

         D                 Em
In pools among the rushes that scarce could bathe a star

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

    Am          C
We give them unquiet dreams

            G           Am
Leaning softly out from ferns that drop their tears

            C
Over the young streams

Instrumental:
G D Em  G D Em
C G Am  C G Am C G

Verse: (Spoken)

     D       Em        G
Away with us he's going, the solemn-eyed

            D       Em             C
He'll hear no more the lowing of the calves on the warm hillside

           G  Am
Or the kettle on the hob, sing peace into his breast

  C         G   Am          C
Or see the brown mice bob, around and around the oatmeal-chest

Chorus:

    G        D       Em
For he comes, the human child, to the water

  G        D      Em         C
He comes, the human child to the water and the wild

    G          Am  C
With a faery, hand in hand

    G         Am      C         G
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand

Chorus:

   D    Em  G
Human child

   D    Em  C
Human child

    G          Am  C
With a faery, hand in hand

    G         Am      C
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand

C
Than he can understand, he can understand

Outro:
G D Em C