The Stolen Child

G  D  Em    G  D  Em
C  G  Am    C  G  Am  C

[Chorus]
      G          D            Em
Come away, human child to the water
      G          D            Em                  C
Come away, human child to the water and the wild
       G                    Am   C
With a faery, hand in hand
        G                    Am           C                  G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

[Verse] (Spoken)
                     D       Em                           G
Where dips the rocky highland of Sleuth Wood in the lake
                   D             Em
There lies a leafy island, where flapping herons wake
                 C     G
The drowsy water rats
                          Am
There we've hid our faery vats
               C   G
Full of berries
Am                    C   G
And of reddest stolen cherries

[Chorus]
      G          D            Em
Come away, human child to the water
      G          D            Em                  C
Come away, human child to the water and the wild
       G                    Am   C
With a faery, hand in hand
        G                    Am           C                  G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

[Verse] (Spoken)
                  D                     Em                         G
Where the wave of moonlight glosses the dim grey sands with light
           D                   Em
Far off by furthest Rosses, we foot it all the night
                      C                           G
Weaving olden dances, mingling hands and mingling glances
                        Am
Till the moon has taken flight
                  C
To and fro we leap and chase the frothy bubbles
G                                   Am
While the world is full of troubles
               C
And is anxious in its sleep

[Chorus]
      G          D            Em
Come away, human child to the water
      G          D            Em                  C
Come away, human child to the water and the wild
       G                    Am   C
With a faery, hand in hand
        G                    Am           C                  G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

[Verse] (Spoken)
          D                     Em                               G
Where the wandering water gushes from the hills above Glen Carr
                  D                                 Em
In pools among the rushes that scarce could bathe a star
                       C                             G
We seek for slumbering trout and whispering in their ears
       Am                    C
We give them unquiet dreams
                        G                     Am
Leaning softly out from ferns that drop their tears
                       C
Over the young streams

[Instrumental]
G  D  Em    G  D  Em
C  G  Am    C  G  Am  C  G

[Verse] (Spoken)
          D             Em                G
Away with us he's going, the solemn-eyed
                       D             Em                          C
He'll hear no more the lowing of the calves on the warm hillside
                     G   Am
Or the kettle on the hob, sing peace into his breast
   C                  G     Am                   C
Or see the brown mice bob, around and around the oatmeal-chest

[Chorus]
       G                D             Em
For he comes, the human child, to the water
   G                D            Em                  C
He comes, the human child to the water and the wild
       G                    Am   C
With a faery, hand in hand
       G                  Am           C                 G
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand

[Chorus]
      D       Em   G
Human child
      D       Em   C
Human child
       G                    Am   C
With a faery, hand in hand
       G                  Am           C
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand
C
Than he can understand, he can understand