Rye Cove chords by Doc Watson

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
C majorC FF C majorC G7G7 C majorC


verse 1
  C majorC          FF     C majorC
Oh listen today to the story I'll tell,
  C majorC             G7G7
Tis saddened with tear dimmed eyes,
   C majorC           FF     C majorC
Of a dreadful cyclone that came this way,
  C majorC    G7G7      C majorC
And blew our schoolhouse away.

  FF     C majorC
Rye Cove, Rye Cove,
  C majorC             G+G G7G7
The place of my childhood and home,
     C majorC          FF       C majorC
Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam,
  C majorC      G+G     C majorC   G7G7  C majorC
But now it's so silent and lone.

verse 2
     C majorC            FF      C majorC
When the great storm appeared it darkened the air,
    C majorC             G7G7
And the lightning flashed over the sky,
     C majorC             FF    C majorC
Then the children all cried, don't take us away,
   C majorC     G7G7   C majorC
But spare us to go back home.


  FF     C majorC
Rye Cove, Rye Cove ,
  C majorC             G+G G7G7
The place of my childhood and home,
     C majorC          FF       C majorC
Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam,
  C majorC      G+G     C majorC
But now it's so silent and lone.


Instrumental

C majorC  FF  C majorC
C  G7G7  C majorC

verse 3
    C majorC         FF      C majorC
For the mothers so sad and fathers the same,
   C majorC           G7G7
They came to this horrible scene,
   C majorC             FF        C majorC
Then searching and crying each found their own child,
C majorC     G7G7    C majorC
Dying on a pillow of stone.


verse 4
   C majorC          FF       C majorC
Lord give us a home far beyond the blue skies,
    C majorC            G7G7
Where storms and cyclones are unknown,
  C majorC            FF      C majorC
And there will we stand and gladly clasp hands
     C majorC        G7G7    C majorC
With our children in the heavenly home.


  FF     C majorC
Rye Cove, Rye Cove ,
  C majorC             G+G G7G7
The place of my childhood and home,
     C majorC          FF       C majorC
Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam,
  C majorC      G+G     C majorC
But now it's so silent and lone.