Promised Land

	  		


nd Fret 



Intro: C   

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On a bright September day in fall  
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We sailed away from Montreal 
            F       C       G 
And I hung upon the railing high 
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And I waved the world I knew goodbye 
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Sailed from home across the sea 
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The other side, the heart of me 
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And I just stood and waved my hand 
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In my world in the promised land 


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And we ran like hares, ran through the close 
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Doon tae the burn, in spate it rose 
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We stood on the bridge by the bowling green 
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laughed our words in steady streams 
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The arc of stone across the river 
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And a moment hung in time forever 
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And the sun shone on us, every man 
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In my world in the promised land 


Instrumental: C  F  C  G  F  C  F  C  G  F  C 
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Night came black, with death adorning 
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Grampa's dead and Granny's mourning 
             F       C        G 
Brithers and sisters all came doon  
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Sat there greeting in the living room 
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The emptiness of what was left  
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We sat there in that house of death 
                F         C         G 
And we hung our heads and wrung our hands 
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In my world in the promised land 


           F       C     G 
So I never saw him lying there 
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I never climbed the scaffold stair 
          F       C     G 
My father left it up to me 
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To choose to see or not to see 
    G                 F     C    
But death's a road we walk alone  
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But I read the words upon the stone 
             F          C       G 
He's sitting still, his pipe in hand 
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In my world in the promised land 
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Oh, he's sitting still, his pipe in hand 
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Oh, in my world in the promised land 


OUTRO: C  F  C  G  F  C  F  C  G  F  C 
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