Jump Little Children

Jump Little Children - Lockshire Sound guitar tab

LOCKSHIRE SOUND

tabbed by Douglas Thompson (jwtjta@aol.com)

Chords Used:

E|--3--|--0--|--0--|--2--|--0--|

B|--3--|--1--|--1--|--3--|--0--|

G|--0--|--2--|--0--|--2--|--0--|

D|--0--|--2--|--2--|--0--|--2--|

A|--2--|--0--|--3--|-----|--2--|

E|--3--|-----|-----|-----|--0--|

G Am C D Em

G Am C G

I am a young sailor who travels the sea

G D C D

My fever for prizes will no let me be

G Am C G

So I cast off the shore like a load off a steed

G D C D

The circle of the water is all that I need

G Am C G

Oh dance all ye, dance all ye, water and foam

G D C D

My bough is the stage for your magic to roam

G Am C G

And run all ye, run all ye, thunder and rain

G D C D

My sails hold the scars but do not hold the pain

G Am C G

I tighten my ropes to the wind that has blowed

G D C D

Giving the rudder the strength that he's owed

G Am C G

And I travel, no peace, to the land I was born

G D C D

Hoping I will not receive her forlorn

G Am C G

I courted a maiden, not one year it's been

G D C D

She wants to be married, her dowery to spin

G Am C G

"A family of boys and a girl," she would say,

G D C D

"Would satisfy hunger as the youth has delayed"

G Am C G

But the mist of the harbour is solid as stone

G D C D

"If you don't return from your journeys alone

G Am C G

I'll spend every evening on Lockshire Sound

G D C D

Gazing for sails that are now homeward bound"

G Am C G

G D C D

G Am C G

Em D

G Am C G

I fear that my absence is longer than said

G D C D

Been almost a year since I've slept in my bed

G Am C G

But as I am approaching the Lockshire Sound

G D C D

I hope that my maiden soon will be found

G Am C G

"Oh excuse me, young lady, do you know of she?

G D C D

For I was away riding waves of the sea"

G Am C G

"Yes, I do know the lady you speak,

G D C D

I attended her wedding with flowers last week"

G Am C G

"Oh say it, young lady, you cannot be true

G D C D

For I have returned as I said I would do"

G Am C G

But time does erode some firmness of soil

G D C D

A sapling will grow, if not it will toil

G Am C G

Her hunger for marriage, a family, indeed

G D C D

Was true to her word, was true to her need

G Am C G

But I was just written in sand for the day

G D G

Let Lockshire Sound wash it away

G Am C G

G D C D

G Am C G

Em D

G

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