Tom: Am
C F C
Gentle was the tide breaking in foreign sky;
Am F G
beside the moon there were echoes of this home
C F C
Broken were the streets, concrete river beneath his feet
Am F G
cracked and cratered and whispering all alone.
C F C
Bleeding through the blinds was the moonlight and the lights,
Am F G
crossing over and finding a young man’s eyes.
C F C
Lost was the might of that young man on that night,
Am Dm E
looking for where the sea met the sky
[Chorus]
F C
Oh, sally forth
F C F Am
my love, I adore you more and more.
F E
As each day the rocks are around him, on the shore.
F C F C
I wait beside the lighthouse every night
Am
in my home
F G C
I am here, waiting for a turn.
[Verse]
C F C
Shallow was the one in the crack on the tile
Am F G
as she dropped a bottle, frightened by the cry of the wind.
C F C
“He will come in time,” she would say, once in a while
Am F G
and she hoped that the screen door would sing again.
C F C
Soft was the light, hanging down beside the night
Am F G
and the kitchen streaks of plaster lay still cracked
C F C
Lost was the might of the women on that night,
Am Dm E
for the earth had taken that blue sea and turned it to black
[Chorus]
F C
Oh, sally forth
F C F Am
my love, I adore you more and more.
F E
As each day the rocks are around him, on the shore.
F C F C
I wait beside the lighthouse every night
Am
in my home
F G C
I am here, waiting for a turn.
C F C
Am F G x2
[Chorus]
F C
Oh, sally forth
F C F Am
my love, I adore you more and more.
F E
As each day the rocks are around him, on the shore.
F C F C
I wait beside the lighthouse every night
Am
in my home
F G Am
I am here, waiting for a turn.
F
In my home
C G C
I am here waiting for a turn
