Libertys Sweet Shore - Ver 2

C G/B F C In this fading light the mainland G/B F G Lies vague out on the horizon C G/B F G F A lighthouse beaming its welcome Dm G C F G To Gross Isle and liberty’s sweet shore C G/B F C For three months and a day we’ve been sailing G/B F G Around pinnacles of ice we’ve been steering C G/B F G F Storms and Nor’easters a raging Dm G C F G To deliver us to liberty’s sweet shore 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 C G/B F C Two pounds a head for the passage G/B F G With ease our landlord surrendered C G/B F G F And wiped his hands clean as he tendered Dm G C F G From a distance he watched us all go C G/B F C We sailed the fifth day of September G/B F G Two hundred poor souls crammed together C G/B F G F From our families and homeland we’re severed Dm G C F G The clothes on our backs all we own 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 C G/B F C We’re bowed down in sickness and hunger G/B F G We pray for the hand of our maker C G/B F G F My child was lost to a fever Dm G C F G A quick prayer, then hauled overboard C G/B F C Oceans of tears they are falling G/B F G In hope and despair both recalling C G/B F G F Now the gulls of St Lawrence they are calling Dm G C F G Soon Quebec and liberty’s sweet shore 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 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 C Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore