Widow With A Shawl
Words and Music by Donovan Leitch


AmAm Piano Chord 
                               GG Piano Chord 

Dear wind that shakes the barley free,

AmAm Piano Chord 
                               GG Piano Chord 
   G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
     EmEm Piano Chord 

Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill her sails.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                      GG Piano Chord 

I a-weary wait upon the shore.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                          GG Piano Chord 

Forsake her not in times of storm,

AmAm Piano Chord 
                           GG Piano Chord 
     G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
     EmEm Piano Chord 

protect her oaken beams from harm, fill her sails.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                      GG Piano Chord 

I a-weary wait upon the shore.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                   GG Piano Chord 

Whether he be in Africa

AmAm Piano Chord 
                    GG Piano Chord 
  G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
     EmEm Piano Chord 

Or deep asleep in India, fill his dreams,

AmAm Piano Chord 
                      GG Piano Chord 

I a-weary wait upon the shore.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                             GG Piano Chord 

Dear snow white gulls upon the wing,

AmAm Piano Chord 
                     GG Piano Chord 
    G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
   EmEm Piano Chord 

I, like you, are lamenting, for my love.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                      GG Piano Chord 

I a-weary wait upon the shore.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                   GG Piano Chord 

And in my chariot of sleep,

AmAm Piano Chord 
                         GG Piano Chord 
     G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
 EmEm Piano Chord 

I ride the vast and dreamy deep, deep sea.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                     GG Piano Chord 

I awake a-weary on the shore.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                         GG Piano Chord 

For seven years and seven days,

AmAm Piano Chord 
                         GG Piano Chord 
     G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
 EmEm Piano Chord 

no man has seen my woman's ways, dear God.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                         GG Piano Chord 

I a-weary cry upon the shore.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                        GG Piano Chord 

Along the shingle beach I go,

AmAm Piano Chord 
                     GG Piano Chord 
   G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
 EmEm Piano Chord 

the wind about me as I make my way,

AmAm Piano Chord 
                        GG Piano Chord 

to my weary dream upon my bed.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                               GG Piano Chord 

Dear wind that shakes the barley free,

AmAm Piano Chord 
                               GG Piano Chord 
   G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
     EmEm Piano Chord 

Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill her sails.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                      GG Piano Chord 

I a-weary wait upon the shore.

AmAm Piano Chord 
                      GG Piano Chord 

I a-weary wait upon the shore.


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