The Old Ways

Em    D/F#  C/G   Am
Em    D/F#  C/G   Am

[Chorus]

Em                  D/F#                 C/G           Am
   The thundering waves are calling me home, home to you.
Em                D/F#              C/G           Am
   The pounding sea is calling me home, home to you.

[Verse]

Em                        Bm7                          C           
   On a dark New Year's night, on the west coast of Clare, I heard 
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your voice singing.
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   Your eyes danced the song, your hands played the tune. 'Twas a 
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vision before me.
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   We left the music behind and the dance carried on as we stole away 
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to the seashore.
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   And smelt the brine, felt the wind in our hair. With sadness you
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 paused.

[Bridge]

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Suddenly I knew that you'd have to go. Your world was not mine, your
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 eyes told me so.
           Em                               Bm7                C   D
Yet it was there I felt the crossroads of time, and I wondered why.

[Verse]

Em                  Bm7                  C                Am
   As we cast our gaze on the tumbling sea, a vision came o'er me.
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   Of thundering hooves and beating wings in the clouds above.

[Verse]

           Em                          Bm7                    C
Turning to go, heard you call out my name. Like a bird in a cage, 
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spreading its wings to fly.
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"The old ways are lost," you sang as you flew. And I wondered why.

[Chorus]

Em                  D/F#                 C/G           Am
   The thundering waves are calling me home, home to you.
Em                D/F#              C/G           Am
   The pounding sea is calling me home, home to you.
Em                  D/F#                 C/G           Am
   The thundering waves are calling me home, home to you.
Em                D/F#              C/G           Am
   The pounding sea is calling me home, home to you.
Em                  D/F#                 C/G           Am
   The thundering waves are calling me home, home to you.
Em                D/F#              C/G           Am
   The pounding sea is calling me home, home to you.

[Outro]

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(repeat until fadeout)

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