Gordon Lightfoot – Waiting For You (Guitar Intro)

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[Intro] D+a Dsus4 D A D G A A6 A D [Verse]
 D                        G             D
Say what you will, I will miss you my friends

      G                    D           A
Let me move along for the road never ends

   D                     G           D
Vowing to live till the end of all time

        G                       D             A
All the way to the ends of the earth because I'm

    D                  A            D    Dsus4 D A D G A A6 A D
Waiting for you to say you will be mine

  D              G          D
Many long days, many long years

   G               D            A
Many wrong plays, many wrong fears

  D                      G           D
I could be tossed in the arms of the sea

    G                     D          A
I could be caught between decks eternally

      D                 A              D+a Dsus4 D A D G A A6 A D (X2)
Waiting for you to ask what's keeping me

  D                     G           D
What would we do at the end of the day

         G                       D            A
When the hours are asleep and the time slips away

     D                   D              A
Children are all that the earth has to show

    G                      D               A
Children are all that the earth wants to know

     D                       A            D
Up here in the northland, up here in the snow

  D                     G           D
Up in the wilderness, land of our birth

   G                D            A
Land of our toil, land of our worth

        D                 G           D
I could stay healthy and wealthy and wise

      G               D               A
For I love the snow other snowbirds criticize

      D                  A                D
Tell that to a wife and you'll get a surprise

    D                G                     D
The skies of North America are covered in stars

        G                      D            A
Over factories and farms, over hamlets and bars

      D                         G             A
The breeze of North America is breathless at night

      G                         D             A
Out there in the distance some souls are in flight

      D                         A              D
Some soft hearted lovers whose goals are in sight

  D                  G          D
Here in my on again, off again style

   G                   D        A
Here in my on again, off again smile

  G                   G        D
Here in my off again, on again grin

 G                    D         A
Here in my off again, on again skin

  D                    A         D+a  Dsus4  D  A  D  G  A A6 A  D (2 OR 3 TIMES TO END
Waiting for you to say let us begin