Key: C major
Intro 1
G
Verse 1
C
G
I found an old letter caught under a stone
C
G
F
G
By the sea in the lee of the cliffs all alone
C
Am
Its pages were tattered
F
C
G
To land from the hand of a sailor unknown
C
F
C
G
C
There by the coast of Sierra Leone
G
C
When you walked and you
G
F
talked with me so long ago
G
C
Am
I shoved you aside as I
Em
F
rushed to and fro
Friend, my old friend,
C
G
C
F
C
G
C
never let go
While I sail the sea
G
Am
G
C
F
I need your watchful eye at the prowl
G
F
C
I know that you know
Am
C
F
C
I'm kneeling here now
F
C
F
C
F
C
F
C
F
C
F
G
girls, my back door
C
G
F
G
Lashing and smashing and waging its war
C
Am
My crewmen, the lifeboat,
Em
F
please see them ashore
G
C
even one person more
F
G
C
Here by Sierra Leone's
G
C
rocky floor
G
F
G
Forgive my neglect, old friend, it was my loss
C
G
I wait for my fate
F
G
as the ship starts to toss
C
Am
Em
F
I feel the cold wa ters, I see the dark moss
G
C
F
C
G
C
or to heaven on a cross?
G
F
Friend, my old friend,
Dm
F
Em
C
you looked out for me
Am
F
G
will I sail the sea?
Am
G
I'll take the wheel if
C
F
you'll ride the bow
G
F
C
You'll know that I know
F
C
F
C
you're standing here now
F
C
F
C
G
C
F
C
F
C
F
C
G
F
As I stood on the rocks of Sierra Leone
G
C
G
F
G
I see the blue sea of Sierra Leone
C
Am
Close by the spot where
Em
F
the letter I'd blown
G
C
And thought for naught
G
C
of the sailor unknown
F
C
F
C
There by the coast of
G
C
Sierra Leone
F
G
carved into the stone
C
G
F
Am
G
By the sea, the blue sea of Sierra Leone
C
Am
Thank you, old friend,
Em
F
just those words alone
C
F
F
C
G
Here on the coast of Sierra Leone
C
C
G
Here by the hand of a sailor unknown.
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