Tom: Ab
Intro
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Ab Eb Fm C# Ab Eb C# Ab Ab Eb Fm C# C#maj7 Eb4 Eb Ab
Eb Fm
In the year of '39 assembled here the volunteers
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In the days when lands were few
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Here the ship sailed out into the
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Blue and sunny morn, sweetest sight ever seen.
Eb Edim
And the night followed day, and the storytellers say
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That the score brave souls inside
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For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
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Never looked back, never feared, never cried.
Ab C# Ab
Don't you hear my call, though you're many years away,
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Don't you hear me calling you
Ab Eb/G Fm Fm/Eb C# Ab/C Bbm
Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand
Cm Eb Ab
In the land that our grandchildren knew.
Bridge
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C# C# Gm C# Bbm Bbm F F B B E B/Eb C#m7 F# Ab
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In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue
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The volunteers came home that day
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And they bring good news of a world so newly born
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Though their hearts so heavily weigh
Eb Edim
For the earth is old and grey, little darling we'll away
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But my love this cannot be
Ab Eb
For so many years have gone though I'm older but a year
C# Ab Fm Eb/G C# Ab Eb
Your mother's eyes, from your eyes cry to me.
Ab C# Ab
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Ab Eb
Don't you hear me calling you
Ab C7 Fm Fm/Eb C# Ab/C Bbm
Write your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand
Cm Eb Ab
In the land that our grandchildren knew.
Ab C# Ab
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Ab Eb
Don't you hear me calling you
Ab Eb/G Fm Fm/Eb C# Ab/C Bbm
All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand
Fm Eb
For my life, still ahead, pity me.
Outtro
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