Rock Me To Sleep Mother

C G/B F C G/B F 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 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 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 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 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 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 Am F C G/B F C G/B F Rock me to sleep C Rock me to sleep