Years Of My Life
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: CCapotraste: Sem capotraste
From the album "Wise River" (2022)
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/5aqDxiSUvac
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/6KTYhzLn2JEamLSKxwv2mf?si=9aad0cda4cde4db8
[Intro]
| F C | G | C G | Am |
| F | G | C | C | C | C |
[Verse 1]
C/B Am G Am
I can hear you call over the ocean
Am C G
I know you want me to come ashore
Am G C C/B Am
And when the fish ain't bite leave the wailers out of sight
F G Am
Just take that dory home
F G C
For the year it's bound to grow
[Verse 2]
C/B Am G Am
She said now watch the wind over your shoulder
Am C G
Winter's coming soon will bring the cold
Am G C C/B Am
Kagan knew this too well 40 years on the swell
F G Am
Though cold never gave him a fright
F G C
He knew this year it could take his life
[Chorus]
Am G Am
And while you wait for me on the corner
Am C G
But you know I always turned to the tide
Am G C C/B Am
When I need to be free I'll escape to the lee
F G Am
Set my sails northeast for the light
F G C C C/B
They'll take years off my life
[Instrumental]
| Am | G | Am | Am |
| Am | C | G | G |
| Am | G | C C/B | Am |
| F | G | Am | Am |
| F | G | C | C |
[Verse 3]
C/B Am G Am
Well Kagan he read the weather wrong
Am C G
And the wind it swept out southeast
Am G C C/B Am
'Said I'm not afraid of you wind 'less I can't find that old ledge
F G Am
So he turned on a run to the North
F G Am
But the wind it watched his course
[Verse 4]
Am G Am
Well a gust ripped right through his mainsail
Am C G
He put is oars in and shouted towards through the breeze
Am G C C/B Am
With the dory adrift he could not find now the ledge
F G Am
Calling out here for his wife
F G C
Only the wind could hear him cry
[Chorus]
C/B Am G Am
While you wait for me on the corner
Am C G
But you know I always turned to the tide
Am G C C/B Am
When I need to be free I'll escape to the lee
F G Am
Set my sails northeast for the light
F G C C C/B
They'll take years off my life
[Instrumental]
| Am | G | Am | Am |
| Am | C | G | G |
| Am | G | C C/B | Am |
| F | G | Am | Am |
| F | G | C | C |
[Verse 5]
C/B Am G Am
Well the snow it fell heavy on that halocline
Am C G
The sail was no use but to keep him warm
Am G C C/B Am
Though not afraid of the cold fleeting thoughts turned to home
F G Am
His wife there biding her time
F G Am
She knew he was gone this time
[Verse 6]
Am G Am
And when the waves wash over your shoulders
Am C G
And the way you move makes me cry
Am G C C/B Am
Kagan said to the wind take me now my old friend
F G Am
Cause she knows down deep inside
F G C
I've no more years of my life
[Chorus]
Am G Am
And now she waits for me on the corner
Am C G
But she knows I come and go with the tide
Am G C C/B Am F G Am
Take my hand through the wind I won't see her again
N.C.
I've no more years of my life
[Outro]
| F C | G | C G | Am |
| F | G | C | C |
How to play Years Of My Life
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