Donovan - Widow With A Shawl Tabs

Words and Music by Donovan Leitch
 
 
 
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Dear wind that shakes the barley free,
 
Am                               G   G/F#     Em
Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill her sails.
 
Am                      G
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
 
 
Am                          G
Forsake her not in times of storm,
 
Am                           G     G/F#     Em
protect her oaken beams from harm, fill her sails.
 
Am                      G
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
 
 
Am                   G
Whether he be in Africa
 
Am                    G  G/F#     Em
Or deep asleep in India, fill his dreams,
 
Am                      G
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
 
 
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Dear snow white gulls upon the wing,
 
Am                     G    G/F#   Em
I, like you, are lamenting, for my love.
 
Am                      G
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
 
 
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And in my chariot of sleep,
 
Am                         G     G/F# Em
I ride the vast and dreamy deep, deep sea.
 
Am                     G
I awake a-weary on the shore.
 
 
Am                         G
For seven years and seven days,
 
Am                         G     G/F# Em
no man has seen my woman's ways, dear God.
 
Am                         G
I a-weary cry upon the shore.
 
 
Am                        G
Along the shingle beach I go,
 
Am                     G   G/F# Em
the wind about me as I make my way,
 
Am                        G
to my weary dream upon my bed.
 
 
Am                               G
Dear wind that shakes the barley free,
 
Am                               G   G/F#     Em
Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill her sails.
 
Am                      G
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
 
Am                      G
I a-weary wait upon the shore.
 


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