The Tide Falls Away chords by Dar Williams

Chords with lyrics

Dar Williams - The Tide Falls Away


INTRO: A minorAm Am7Am7 A minorAm FF

A minorAm          Am7Am7     FF
I walked a spiralling village one night
E minorEm           G+G     FF
Drawn by the word of a bell or a light
G+G            E7E7    A minorAm   Am7Am7
Out on the flats, saw it rose to a spire
      A minorAm  FF   C majorC      A minorAm
All becomes clear as the tide falls away

A minorAm           Am7Am7   FF
Parent and child and an ocean between
E minorEm            G+G     FF
One is not heard and the other not seen
G+G           E7E7          A minorAm   Am7Am7
Too many bottles, but each had a message inside
      A minorAm  FF   C majorC      A minorAm  Am7Am7
All becomes clear as the tide falls away
      A minorAm  FF   C majorC      A minorAm
All becomes clear as the tide falls away


INTERLUDE: A minorAm Am7Am7 FF E minorEm G+G FF

G+G           E7E7
Lucky we are when the stars leave us singing
 A minorAm            FF           C majorC
A augmentedA hymn or a dirge when the surge of the ocean is gone
 FF
Is gone


INTERLUDE: A minorAm Am7Am7 A minorAm FF


A minorAm           Am7Am7      FF
And the old woman just stares at her hands
E minorEm         G+G      FF
So many heroes have crumbled to sand
G+G             E7E7    A minorAm  Am7Am7
All those cathedrals were merely by men
      A minorAm  FF   C majorC      A minorAm
All becomes clear as the tide falls away
         FF   C majorC      A minorAm  Am7Am7
All becomes clear as the tide falls away
      FF
All falls away


OUTRO: A minorAm Am7Am7 A minorAm FF