C  G/B F    C  G/B F

[Verse]
C              G/B       Am           F
Backward, turn backward, Time in your flight
C         G/B          Dm         G
Make me a child again, just for tonight
C            G/B           Dm       Am
Mother, come back from the echoless shore
C        G/B          Am           F
Take me again to your heart like before

[Verse]
C            G/B          Am         F
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care
C              G/B            Dm        G
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair
C       G/B          Dm           Am
Over my slumber your loving watch keep
C          G/B            Am           F
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep

[Verse]
C              G/B       Am          F
Backward, flow backward, tide of the years
C       G/B      Dm          G
I am so weary of toil and of tears
C            G/B         Dm           Am
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain
C             G/B        Am         F
Take them and give me my childhood again

[Verse]
C                G/B      Am         F
For I have grown weary of dust and decay
C        G/B         Dm           G
Weary of flinging my soul wealth away
C        G/B        Dm        Am
Weary of sowing for others to reap
C          G/B            Am         F
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep

[Bridge]
C          G          Dm7             Am
Mother, oh mother, my heart calls for you
C            G/B         C           F
Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue
C        Am         Dm7             G
Many's a summer the grass has grown green
C             G/B        Dm7   G
Blossomed and faded, our faces - between

[Verse]
C            G/B       Am           F
Backward, oh backward, Time in your flight
C         G/B          Dm         G
Make me a child again, just for tonight
C             G/B        Dm          Am
Come from the silence so long and so deep
C          G/B            Am          F
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep
C          G/B            C          Am
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep

[Outro]
Am  F  C  G/B  F
           C     G/B  F
Rock me to sleep
           C
Rock me to sleep