Libertys Sweet Shore

C

[Verse 1]
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In this fading light the mainland
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Lies vague out on the horizon
  C          G/B         F G  F
A lighthouse beaming its welcome
   Dm             G               
To Gross Isle and liberty’s sweet 
C     F G
shore

[Verse 2]
    C                  G/B     
For three months and a day we’ve 
       F   C
been sailing
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Around pinnacles of ice we’ve been 
F    G
steering
           C   G/B       F G  F
Storms and Nor’easters a raging
     Dm          G               
To deliver us to liberty’s sweet 
C     F G
shore

[Chorus]
F                    C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F          Dm7       G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
   F
We left all we know
        Am             C
To this new life we’ll go
F          G         C             F
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore

[Verse 3]
    C        G/B          F  C
Two pounds a head for the passage
Continúa después del anuncio
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With ease our landlord surrendered
    C               G/B       
And wiped his hands clean as he 
  F G  F
tendered
       Dm          G              
From a distance he watched us all 
C  F G
go

[Verse 4]
   C                G/B       F  C
We sailed the fifth day of September
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Two hundred poor souls crammed 
 F   G
together
         C            G/B         
From our families and homeland 
   F G  F
we’re severed
    Dm             G            C
The clothes on our backs all we 
    F G
own

[Chorus]
F                    C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F          Dm7       G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
   F
We left all we know
        Am             C
To this new life we’ll go
F          G         C             F
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore

[Verse 5]
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We’re bowed down in sickness and 
F  C
hunger
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We pray for the hand of our maker
   C         G/B       F G  F
My child was lost to a fever
  Dm                 G    
A quick prayer, then hauled 
      C     F G
overboard

[Verse 6]
C         G/B            F   C
Oceans of tears they are falling
               G/B         F   G
In hope and despair both recalling
        C           G/B           
Now the gulls of St Lawrence they 
    F G  F
are calling
     Dm         G             
Soon Quebec and liberty’s sweet 
  C    F G
shore

[Chorus]
F                    C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F          Dm7       G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
   F
We left all we know
        Am             C
To this new life we’ll go
F          G         C             F
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore

[Chorus]
F                    C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F          Dm7       G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
   F
We left all we know
        Am             C
To this new life we’ll go
F          G         C           
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
  F  C