Widow With A Shawl
	Words and Music by Donovan Leitch
	 
 
 
	Am                               G
	Dear wind that shakes the barley free,
	 
	Am                               G   G/F#     Em
	Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill her sails.
	 
	Am                      G
	I a-weary wait upon the shore.
	 
	 
	Am                          G
	Forsake her not in times of storm,
	 
	Am                           G     G/F#     Em
	protect her oaken beams from harm, fill her sails.
	 
	Am                      G
	I a-weary wait upon the shore.
	 
	 
	Am                   G
	Whether he be in Africa
	 
	Am                    G  G/F#     Em
	Or deep asleep in India, fill his dreams,
	 
	Am                      G
	I a-weary wait upon the shore.
	 
	 
	Am                             G
	Dear snow white gulls upon the wing,
	 
	Am                     G    G/F#   Em
	I, like you, are lamenting, for my love.
	 
	Am                      G
	I a-weary wait upon the shore.
	 
	 
	Am                   G
	And in my chariot of sleep,
	 
	Am                         G     G/F# Em
	I ride the vast and dreamy deep, deep sea.
	 
	Am                     G
	I awake a-weary on the shore.
	 
	 
	Am                         G
	For seven years and seven days,
	 
	Am                         G     G/F# Em
	no man has seen my woman's ways, dear God.
	 
	Am                         G
	I a-weary cry upon the shore.
	 
	 
	Am                        G
	Along the shingle beach I go,
	 
	Am                     G   G/F# Em
	the wind about me as I make my way,
	 
	Am                        G
	to my weary dream upon my bed.
	 
	 
	Am                               G
	Dear wind that shakes the barley free,
	 
	Am                               G   G/F#     Em
	Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill her sails.
	 
	Am                      G
	I a-weary wait upon the shore.
	 
	Am                      G
	I a-weary wait upon the shore.


	

From Dennis McClain-Furmanski