Sail Away Home

Words & Music by John Denver
from Whose Garden Was This (1970)

Capo 3
Unusual Chords
A   :  x|2225

E7      /      /     /     /
     E7
Sail away
           A
Sail away home
 E7
Sail away
              A        E       A
Till you are gone
             D   A    E         A
You have so far to   go
                  D    A      E    A   /
There's so much that you don't know
  E7
Dream away
                 A
See what you find,  yeah
  E7
Dream away
                  A    E  A
It's all in your mind
                   D    A   E    A
Things that you'd like to  see
                   D    A    E   A   /
Things that you'd like  to  be
 E7
Dont you know
          A
It seems so wrong, yeah
 E7
Dont you know
                  A   E  A
It's gone on too long
                 D   A   E      A
I cant take the guns an-y-more
                    D    A  E      A
I can't take the screams an-y-more
                  D
I can't take the pain
              G              A           G      D  A
It's got to stop, It's got to change, It can't go on
   G      D  E
It can't go on

            E7
Don't you know
                 A
It's gone on to long, yeah
 E7
Dont you know
              A   E  A    
It seems so wrong
                 D   A    E    A
I cant take the guns an-y-more
                    D    A     E    A
I can't take the screams an-y-more
                  D
I can't take the pain
              G               A           G     D  A
It's got to stop, It's got to change, It can't go on
   G      D  E
It can't go on

        E7
Find a way
            A
I know you can
 E7
Find a way
                  A   E  A  /
I'll give you my hand
             D   A    E   A
Were on our way back home
            D    A    E     A
We've been a long time gone

 A      E7
Sail a-way
           A
Sail away home
 A      E7
Sail a-way
           A
Sail away home

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