Key: G major
Intro 1
G
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
Verse 1
Gsus4
G
And I have lived alone
I live on an island
And I waken to the dawn
Gsus4
C
A long time ago
Csus4
C
I watched him struggle with
G
the sea
I knew that he was drowning
Now today
Come morning light
F
Dm
G
After one last night
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
I let him go.
Verse 2
G
garden overflows
Thick and wild and hidden
Gsus4
Is the sweetness there that grows
C
F
My hair it blows long
C
F
As I sing into the wind
I live on an island
G
Gsus4
I tell of nights
Gsus4
Csus4
on his skin
Verse 3
C
Adim
F
G
Gsus4
I kept him here for years
Interlude 1
G
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
F
C
F
C
Csus4
F
Bb
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
F
C
F
C
F
Bb
Eb
Adim
Am
G
Dm
G
Gsus4
G
Verse 4
G
Gsus4
I have let him go
G
Gsus4
In the dawn he sails away
G
F
Gsus4
To be gone forever more
C
Am
Bb
And the waves will take him in again
C
F
Bb
But he'll know their ways now
With a clean heart
Dm
F
And my song in the wind The
Verse 5
Csus4
sand will sting my feet
F
C
F
And the sky will burn
Bb
Eb
Adim
It's a lonely time ahead
Am
G
I do not ask him to return
Gsus4
G
I let him go
Outro 1
G
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG Gsus4 C Csus4 Eb...
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