Chords for Schooner Fare - Boats of Stone.wmv

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[G] Tell me mister, did you see the [C] boats of stone?
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[C] _ [F] Did you see them [Eb] sailing [C] south to honor [Bb] _ Washington? _ _
_ _ From [Gm] these silent quarries now so _ [C] overgrown _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Gm] Tell [F] me mister.
[Gm] Did you see the boats [C] of stone? _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] Tell me mister.
[Gm] Did you see the city [C] halls?
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_ [C] Did you [F] carve the [Eb] marble _ [Fm] monuments [Bb] from humble mountain walls?
And [Gm] great columns [Bb] for cathedrals we [C] have known?
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Gm] Tell [F] me mister.
_ Did you [Gm] see the [C] boats of stone? _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [F] To a nation finally free [Ab] in a new _ [Eb]
prosperity
_ [Dm] _ [C] Came a building whom [Bb] for granted _ in the _ [Gm] 19th [C] century
_ [F] And the dinosaurs _ alone [Ab] for this solitary [Eb] _ stone
[Dm] _ [C] Lay sleeping in [Bb] the quarries [C] of New England _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] The need for public buildings [Ab] of a new _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] magnificence
[C] Gave Vermont in all [Bb] her marvel a new _ [C] significance
_ _ [F] And the growing need for granite [Ab] on a monumental _ [Eb] _ [Dm] scale
[C] Awoke the tiny [Bb] island _ villages _ of Maine
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_ _ _ _ _ Through [F] every season of the year they [Ab] sailed along the [Eb] coast of [Dm] fear
[C] On a downy's course [Bb] the home could see [C] them ride
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Into the rising sun _ [Ab]
this schooner fleet [Eb] did [Dm] run _ _
[C] Sailing by [Gm] to make [C] a morning tide _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ To [F] many green New Hampshire _ towns came [Ab] this fleet of [Eb] hand-me [D]-downs
[C] Having spent their [Bb] buoyant youth on golden [C] _ _ lumber _ _ _
[F] They'd all seen better _ days [Ab] before the killing _ [Eb] quarry [Dm] trade
[C] Now _ everybody [Bb] knew their days [C] were _ _ numbered _ _ _
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[F] Up to the loading _ sheds [Ab] the leaking [Eb] halls were _ [Dm] dead
[C] Ready for [Bb] the rubble and [C] the good rock _ _ _
[F] High above the groaning sleds [Ab] the shrieking [Eb] gulls were [Dm] pledged
[C] You'll never make [Bb] a round trip through [C] this same _ dock _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ It [F] _ _ seems _ _ only [Gm] _ _ yesterday _ _ _ [C] I entered _ _ [C] the carving _ trade
[E] _ _ [Dm] And _ now _ I'm [G] so _ far _ away _ [Gm] from _ all _ _ that [C] I know _ _ _ _ _
[F] But word _ _ came [Gm] to _ Italy _ _ [C] of good _ _ _ work [F] across the _ [Em] sea _
[Dm] And you _ gave _ your _
[G] farewell to _ me _ _
[Gm] for I _ had [C] to _ go _ _ _ _
[F] So _ here _ _ [Gm] off the coast of _ Maine [C] on the _ _ island _ _
[F] called _ _ Hurricane
[Am] _ _
[Dm] I dream _ _ I'll [G] see you _ again _
[Gm] when the work _ gets [C] too _ slow _ _ _
_ [F] Yes _ here _ under _ [Gm] _ pointed _ _ trees _ [C] with _ marble _ _ and _ memories _ _
[Em] _ I [Dm] carve _ _ lines _ _ [G] and liberties _ _
_ _ [Bb] through the _ long _
_ Long _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] winter _ _ snow
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[F] You could see them from the shore _
[Ab] always going [Eb] back for [Dm] more _
[C] A steady [Bb] stream stone [Gm] to [C] build a _ nation _ _ _
[F] Every capital and fort the new [Ab] library of [Eb] New [Bb] York
And [C] every church of [Bb] every known _ _
[C] _ denomination
_ You _ [F]
know the mansions of our dreams humble [Ab] schooners with their _ [D] scenes
[C] Like shuttles [Bb] on the wind [Gm] they carried [C] on _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] Something cool to feel the [Ab] granite columns [Eb] on their keel
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[C] Bound for New York's new [Bb] cathedral of [C] safe joys _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ To [F] every green New England hill where we [Gm] know _ a man and [C] a girl
Now the [F] quarry [Bb] men are still [Gm] in peaceful _ _ _ _
[C] _ slumber
[F] To every bus and _ effigy in [Bb] Boston, New York, [Gm] and D [C].C.
And [F] every city clerk [Gm] would be too great to _ _ _ [C] number
_ To [F] the hands and to the boats who cut [Bb] the stones and [C] pull the ropes
To [F] the children and [Bb] their hosts in dark _ _ _ _ [C] December
_ [F] Do the labor of the crew their [Bb] weary vessel won't get [Bb] through
We give [F] the credit where [Gm] it's due and we'll _ _ _ _ [Bb] remember
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Tell [Gm] me, Mr.
did you see the boats [C] that stole? _ _ _
[D] _ _ [C] Did [F] you see them sailing [Eb] _ south [Fm] to honor [Bb] _
Washington?
_ _ _ _ [Gm] From these silent quarries now so _ [C] overgrown
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[F] Tell me, Mr.
_ did you [Gm]
see the boats that [C] stole? _ _ _
_ _ _ Tell [Bb] me, Mr.
did you see the [C] city _
_ _ [Bb] _ halls?
[G] _ [F] Did you guard the [G] marble _ [F] monuments [Bb] from humble mountain _ walls?
And [Gm] great columns for _
[Bb] cathedrals we [C] have known? _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ Tell [F] me, Mr.
_ did [Gm] you see the boats [C] that stole?
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
From [F] these silent _ [Gm] quarries now so _ _ _ _ _ [B] overgrown
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[F] Tell me, Mr.
_ did you [Bb]
see the boats [F] that stole? _ _
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