WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | The Ferryman Chords – Ralph Mctell | Version #1
[Verse]
Am F G Em Am F G Em
Oh, the traveller moving on the land, behold I give you, I give you the travelling man
Am G F
And he's very heavy laden with the questions in his burden
G Am
Lo, and I give you the travelling man
Bb D Dsus4 D
He has crossed the mountains, he has forded streams
E7 A Asus4 A
He has spent a long time surviving on his dreams
D D/C D/B D/A#
Many times he's tried to lighten up his heavy load
D A Em F#
But his compromises fail him and he ends back on the road
E+2 E Am
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Am F G Em
Oh the traveller he is weary, the travelling man he is tired
Am F G Em Am G F
For the road is never ending in his fear he has cried aloud for a saviour
G Am
And in vain for a teacher, someone to lighten up the load
Bb D Dsus4 D
And he's heard the sounds of war in a gentle shower of rain
E7 A Asus4 A
And the whisperings of despair that he could not explain
D D/C D/B D/A#
The reason for his journey, or the reason it began
D A Em F#
Or was there any reason for the travelling man
E+2 E Am
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Am F G Em
At last he reached a river so beautiful and wide
Am F G Em
But the current was so strong he could not reach the other side
Am G F G Am
And the weary travelling man looked for a ferryman strong enough to row against the tide
Bb D Dsus4 D
And the ferryman was old but he moved the boat so well
E7 A Asus4 A
Or did the river move the boat? The traveller could not tell
D D/C D/B D/A#
Said the ferryman, "You're weary and the answers that you seek
D A Em F#
Are in the singing river, listen humbly it will speak."
E+2 E Am
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Am F G Em
Oh, the traveller closed his eyes and he listened and he heard
Am F G Em
Only the river murmuring and the beating of his heart
Am G F
Then he heard the river laughing, and he heard the river crying
G Am
And in it was the beauty and the sadness of the world
Bb D Dsus4 D
And he heard the sounds of dying, but he heard the sounds of birth
E7 A Asus4 A
And slowly his ears heard all the sounds of earth
D D/C D/B D/A#
The sounds blended together and they became a whole
D A Em F#
And the rhythm was his heartbeat to the music his soul
E+2 E Am
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Am F G Em
And the river had no beginning, as it flowed into the sea
Am F G Em
And the seas filled the clouds and the rains filled the streams
Am G F
And as slowly as the sunrise, he opened up his eyes
G Am
To find the ferryman had gone, the boat moved gently on the tide
Bb D Dsus4 D
And the river flowed within him, and with it he was one
E7 A Asus4 A
And the seas moved around the earth, and the earth around the sun
D D/C D/B D/A#
And the traveller was the river, was the boat and ferryman
D A Em F#
Was the journey and the song that the singing river sang