wayward child chords by
Bert Jansch
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Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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There lay a dying sailor weeping
So far he'd wandered
from the south,
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As he lay upon the burning
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sand
The children gather to watch
Verse 2
his passing.
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He'd swum the seven seas before him
And danced upon the stormy
breakers.
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But now dying alone is all that's
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left for him
And death a shining slowly beckons.
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Verse 3
And rolling in last veil of sunshine
Sheds light upon his dying
hours.
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But still strong in his urgent
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will to live
For he tries again to reach
Verse 4
the water.
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And turning away still ring
the voices
Of children laughing o'er the murky waters,
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And somewhere I hear
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the silent singing
Outro 1
Calling on the wayward child.
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