Stolen Child

(intro) Em C Em C Em C Em

       Em       G     C
Where dips the rocky highland
     Am    Bm          Em
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake
       Em     G     C
There lies a leafy island
       Am       Bm     Em
Where flapping herons wake
      G           D
The drowsy water-rats
             Am            Em
There we've hid our faery vats
 G       D
Full of berries
     Em                 D
And of reddest stolen cherries

       G             D
Come away, O human child
        Am             Em
To the waters and the wild
        G              D
With a faery, hand in hand
         Em           G        C     Em
For the world's more full of weeping
      Am     Bm     Em
Than you can understand.

           Em                 Em
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
     Am   Bm             Em
The dim grey sands with light
    Em               Em
By far off furthest Rosses
    Am      Bm      Em
We foot it all the night
 G             D
Weaving olden dances
          Am                  Em
Mingling hands and mingling glances
          G               D
Till the moon has taken flight
 Am            Em
To and fro we leap
      G               D
And chase the frothy bubbles
            Em       G        C      Em
Whilst the world is full of troubles
        Am      Bm       Em
And is anxious in its sleep.

       G             D
Come away, O human child
        Am             Em
To the waters and the wild
        G              D
With a faery, hand in hand
         Em           G        C     Em
For the world's more full of weeping
      Am     Bm     Em
Than you can understand.

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           Em              Em
Where the wandering water gushes
          Am     Bm        Em
From the hills above Glen-Car
    Em              Em
In pools among the rushes
       Am          Bm       Em
That scarce could bathe a star
     G                   D
We seek for slumbering trout
      Am                 Em
And whispering in their ears
       G            D
Give them unquiet dreams
  Am            Em
Leaning softly out
      G                     D
From ferns that drop their tears
  C
Over the young streams

       G             D
Come away, O human child
        Am             Em
To the waters and the wild
        G              D
With a faery, hand in hand
         Em           G        C     Em
For the world's more full of weeping
      Am     Bm     Em
Than you can understand.

(solo) Em C Em C

  Em               Em
Away with us he's going
     Am Bm  Em
The solemn-eyed
       Em               Em
He'll hear no more the lowing
         Am           Bm       Em
Of the calves on the warm hillside
        G             D
Or the kettle on the hob
      Am              Em
Sing peace into his breast
    G                  D
Or see the brown mice bob
           Am                Em
Round and round the oatmeal chest.

          G               D
For here comes, O human child
        Am             Em
To the waters and the wild
        G              D
With a faery, hand in hand
         Em           G        C     Em
For the world's more full of weeping
      Am     Bm     Em
Than you can understand.

(solo) Em C Em C Em C