Inland Tern chords by Schooner Fare

SimplifiedD · Em · C · Am · G …

GuitarPianoUkulele

Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
Am 
There's a tern in the woodland,
C 
D 
a tern in the lea.
G 
C 
There's a tern who flies out
Am 
to the edge of the key.
D 
Em 
C 
Will she ever fly over the
Am 
D 
water to me?
Em 
C 
Am 
Here's a lesson I never may learn
D 
C 
D 
G 
I'll be waiting for my inland turn
D 
G 
Long ago when blue wa
Am 
C 
ters lay over the sand
D 
G 
C 
And the gull and the gastro
Am 
D 
had nowhere to land
Em 
C 
I gave her my promise,
Am 
D 
she gave me her hand
Em 
C 
Am 
With a promise someday to return
D 
C 
D 
So I'm waiting for my inventor
C 
G 
Em 
C 
Then the endless dark winter
Am 
D 
poured down from the north
Em 
C 
Am 
D 
And it swallowed the great inland sea
C 
D 
G 
All the stars in the heavens,
C 
D 
G 
every prayer sent on high
Em 
A 
Am 
D 
Could not carry her homeward to me
G 
Am 
If you find your heart wanderin'
C 
D 
Through the wind and the rain
G 
C 
Where the lakes and the prairies
Am 
Are all that remain
D 
Em 
You may hear her song
C 
Am 
D 
callin' you
Em 
C 
Am 
With a song very simple to learn
D 
C 
D 
That's the promise of my Inland
C 
G 
Em 
C 
Am 
D 
Em 
C 
Am 
Turn
D 
C 
D 
G 
All the stars in the heavens,
C 
D 
G 
every prayer sent on high,
Em 
A 
could not carry her own
Am 
D 
word to me.
G 
Am 
There's a turn in the woodland,
C 
D 
a turn in the leaf.
G 
C 
There's a tern who flies out
Am 
to the edge of the key
D 
Em 
C 
Will she ever fly over the
Am 
D 
water to me?
Em 
C 
Am 
Here's a lesson I never may learn
D 
C 
D 
I'll be waiting for my
Em 
inventor