JUMP LITTLE CHILDREN - "Lockshire Sound" Tablature

LOCKSHIRE SOUND
tabbed by Douglas Thompson (jwtjta@aol.com)

Chords Used:
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B|--3--|--1--|--1--|--3--|--0--|
G|--0--|--2--|--0--|--2--|--0--|
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A|--2--|--0--|--3--|-----|--2--|
E|--3--|-----|-----|-----|--0--|
G Am C D Em


G Am C G
I am a young sailor who travels the sea
G D C D
My fever for prizes will no let me be
G Am C G
So I cast off the shore like a load off a steed
G D C D
The circle of the water is all that I need

G Am C G
Oh dance all ye, dance all ye, water and foam
G D C D
My bough is the stage for your magic to roam
G Am C G
And run all ye, run all ye, thunder and rain
G D C D
My sails hold the scars but do not hold the pain

G Am C G
I tighten my ropes to the wind that has blowed
G D C D
Giving the rudder the strength that he's owed
G Am C G
And I travel, no peace, to the land I was born
G D C D
Hoping I will not receive her forlorn


G Am C G
I courted a maiden, not one year it's been
G D C D
She wants to be married, her dowery to spin
G Am C G
"A family of boys and a girl," she would say,
G D C D
"Would satisfy hunger as the youth has delayed"

G Am C G
But the mist of the harbour is solid as stone
G D C D
"If you don't return from your journeys alone
G Am C G
I'll spend every evening on Lockshire Sound
G D C D
Gazing for sails that are now homeward bound"



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


G Am C G
I fear that my absence is longer than said
G D C D
Been almost a year since I've slept in my bed
G Am C G
But as I am approaching the Lockshire Sound
G D C D
I hope that my maiden soon will be found

G Am C G
"Oh excuse me, young lady, do you know of she?
G D C D
For I was away riding waves of the sea"
G Am C G
"Yes, I do know the lady you speak,
G D C D
I attended her wedding with flowers last week"

G Am C G
"Oh say it, young lady, you cannot be true
G D C D
For I have returned as I said I would do"
G Am C G
But time does erode some firmness of soil
G D C D
A sapling will grow, if not it will toil


G Am C G
Her hunger for marriage, a family, indeed
G D C D
Was true to her word, was true to her need
G Am C G
But I was just written in sand for the day
G D G
Let Lockshire Sound wash it away

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