Safe Passage

Dm F C Dm F C Dm Am C


[Verse]

Dm                          F
A long long time ago, where Scotland
 meets the water
     C                        
They climbed aboard a schooner 
          Dm
headed west,
For safe passage they did pray, with
 F
 their sons and their daughters,
         C                         
To a new world they hoped to be the
   Dm
 best.

They rode the waves for weeks
       F
To the mouth of the St. Lawrence,
    C                       
And crawled off that boat in 
       Dm
Montreal.

[Verse]

Generations lived and died,
            F
Between the river and the border,
Continues after the ad
              C                    
But from the other side there came 
           Dm
a deadly call.

                   F
Far to the south, sabers had been 
rattled,
        C                        
It was said that any brave should 
          Dm
take a stand,
                            F
Young men loved the fight, the 
pistol and the saddle,
         C                   
So he made his way on down to 
        Dm     Am    C
Dixieland

[Chorus]

   A                               
And his mother prayed for him, she 
                        Dm
prayed for his safe passage,
   A                               
She prayed that he came barely back
    Dm
 alive,

Dm F C Dm Dm F C Dm

[Verse]

Dm                           F
That boy returned old but got his 40
 acres,
         C                       
And they cleared the hemlock from 
               Dm
that low hillside,
He built my father's house, and a 
F
barn when he was able,
      C                            
Still standing tall to prove he was
   Dm
 alive.

                          F
Our daddy told us young, he would he
 the last one,
    C                           
To raise a livin from that Rocky 
    Dm
land,

So I cross these many miles, I'm 
 F
back again too often,
    C                          
My journey with my guitar in my 
   Dm   Am  C
hand,

[Chorus]

     A                         
And my mother prays for me, she 
                       Dm
prays for my safe passage,
   A                               
She prays that I will make it back 
  Dm
alive