Mckeons Coming

C G C G C F C Bb Now when the wind is bright with the spring and the snow has gone away C F C F G The days grow long and the time has come to hoist my sail and go C F G And I'll hear no more your dungeon door, nor eat your bitter beans C Bb G C F C Surely it's a long and a hungry road 'til McKeon's home again F C Bb I'll go down by the Naskeag Sound where the tide runs fast and strong C F C F G The water's deep and the hills are steep and the nights are cold and long C F G And through the rocks of Jericho, I'll wind my weary way C Bb G C F C And roll her off for Sable, aye, and the grey seals of Fundy F C Bb For the wind is fair and the tide's at the spring and the time has come to go C F C F G Hoist my sail on a Northern wind and I'll be on my way C F G Ah, but there's no one can go with me and there's no one by my side C Bb G C F C Surely it's a long and a lonely road for the Straits of Canso F C Bb Oh, the wind is fair and the tide's at the spring and the time has come to go C F C F G Hoist my sail on a Northern wind and I'll be on my way C F G And I'll hear no more your dungeon door, nor eat your bitter beans C Bb G C F C Surely it's a long and a hungry road 'til McKeon's home again