Greenland
C ~ ~
C Am F G
1. We filled the boats with what we hoped would last us for the journey,
F
G
C
silently
we gathered on the shore.
C Am F
G
On us shone the midnight sun
and everywhere around us
F G C
the
land where we could stay no more.
C - Am F G
2. From the shelter of the bay out to the open water
F
G
C
floating
on a picture of the sky.
C
Am F G
Leaving what we knew, and not
knowing what's to come,
F
G C
one
last look and then we said goodbye.
G F
G C
To Greenland,
F G
My soul is in the rock, in the
grass and on the air,
F G C
it
moves between the Caribou and the Puffin,
F
G
dives
beneath the ice sheets with the Narwhale and the seal,
F
Dm G
feels
the hunger of the bear.
+ C - G - F - C
C - Am - F G
3. Endless days, restless nights, stories from the past,
F G C
remembering
the Mother of the Sea,
C Am
F G
in
her tangled hair she holds the sins of Man,
F G C
every
missing creature there would be.
F
G
The harshness of the hunter's
life, the struggle to survive,
F G C
the
frozen beauty of the land,
F
G
the
wandering spirit of Qivitoq who chose to live apart,
F
Dm G
like
a man-dog in the wild.
+ C - G - F - C
C - Am
+ We filled the boats with what we hoped
F G
would
last us for the journey,
F G C
silently
we gathered on the shore.
(orig. = capo 3rd) (Christy
Moore)