Sally Forth

   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