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SAFE IN THE HARBOUR Time: 3/4 Tenor: C Bass: Bb
- Eric Bogle, 1984, Record: Where The Wind Blows
- Record: Margaret Cristl: Looking Towards Home
- Source: Eric Bogle songbook, page 42 (C) , Rise Up Singing, page 205 (C)
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Have you stood by the ocean, on a diamond-hard morning[/tab]
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And felt the hor-izon stir deep in your soul[/tab]
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Watched the wake of a steamer as it cut through blue water[/tab]
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And been gripped by a fever you just can t con-trol[/tab]
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Oh to throw off the shackles and fly with the seagulls[/tab]
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To where green waves tumble before a driving sea wind[/tab]
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Or to lie on the decking on a warm summer s evening[/tab]
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Watch the red sun fall burning, be-neath the earth s rim[/tab]
CHORUS:
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But to every sailor, comes time to drop anchor[/tab]
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Haul in the sails, and make the lines fast[/tab]
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You deep water dreamer, your journey is over[/tab]
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You re safe in the harbour at last[/tab]
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You re safe in the harbour at last[/tab]
NOTES:
- Commemorates Stan Roger s tragic death in 1983
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SAFE IN THE HARBOUR (page 2)
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Some men are sailors, but most are just dreamers[/tab]
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Held fast by the anchors they forge in their minds[/tab]
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Who in ther hearts know they ll never sail over deep water[/tab]
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To search for a treasure they re a-fraid they won t find[/tab]
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So in sheltered harbours, they cling to their anchors[/tab]
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Bank down their boilers and shut down their steam[/tab]
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And wait for the sailors to re-turn with bright treasures[/tab]
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That will fan the dull embers and fire up their dreams[/tab]
CHORUS:
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But to every sailor, comes time to drop anchor[/tab]
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Haul in the sails, and make the lines fast[/tab]
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You deep water dreamer, your journey is over[/tab]
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You re safe in the harbour at last[/tab]
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You re safe in the harbour at last[/tab]
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And some men are schemers who laugh at the dreamers[/tab]
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Take the gold from the sailors and turn it to dross[/tab]
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They re men in a prison, they re men without vision[/tab]
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Whose only hor-izon is profit and loss[/tab]
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So when storm clouds come sailing a-cross your blue ocean[/tab]
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Hold fast to your dreaming for all that your re worth[/tab]
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For as long as there s dreamers, there will always be sailors[/tab]
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Bringing back their bright treasures from the corners of earth[/tab]
ENDING: CHORUS, FOLLOWED BY A "C" CHORD
NOTES:
- "*" in the chord line represents a new bar, play same chord
- "." in the lyric line represents a 1/8 note rest
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