Judy Collins – Albatross (Guitar)

C#m                       C#m
The lady comes to the gate

B                       C#m
Dressed in lavender and leather

C#m                      
Looking North to the sea

B
She finds the weather fine

                 A
She hears the steeple bells

   A                                         C#m
Ringing through the orchard all the way from town

B                     A
She watches seagulls fly

  A                           
Silver on the ocean stitching through the waves

                   C#m
The edges of the sky

      Bm                  D                     A
Many people wander up the hills from all around you

      E                      Amaj7                  E
Making up your memories and thinking they have found you

       C#m          G#m      A                        E  
They cover you with veils of wonder as if you were a bride

       C#m         G#m       A                          E
Young men holding violets are curious to know if you have cried

     A        E       A       E    A   E         A   E
And tell you why and ask you why, either way you answer

E                               Amaj7            E
Lace around the collars of the blouses of the ladies

E                       Amaj7           E
Flowers from a Spanish friend of the family

     C#m               G#m          Amaj7                    
The embroidery of your life holds you in and keeps you out

        E        C#m                  G#m       
But you survive, imprisoned in your bones

             Amaj7                    E
Behind the isinglass windows of your eyes

G#m                     C#m           A              
And in the night, the iron wheels rolling through the rain

         A                        C#m
Down the hills through the long grass to the sea

                      G#m          A
And in the dark, the hard bells ringing with pain 

A               C#m   
Come away alone

 C#m             B                         C#m
Even now by the gate with your long hair blowing

                    B                      
And the colors of the day that lie along your arms

        A                                      B
You must barter your life to make sure you are living

                      A   
And the crowd that has come, you give them the colors

A                                   C#m
And the bells and the wind and the dream

E           
Will there never be a prince

Amaj7                              E
Who rides along the sea and the mountains?

E                           Amaj7                 E
Scattering the sand and the foam into amethyst fountains

C#m            G#m              A                     E
Riding up the hills from the beach in the long summer grass

C#m           G#m               A                   E
Holding the sun in his hands and shattering the isinglass

Bm                               D                      A
Day and night and day again and people come and go away forever

           C#m      G#m                       A            E     
While the shining summer sea dances in the glass of your mirror

            C#m     G#m          A                          E    
While you search the waves for love and your visions for a sign

     C#m           G#m                  A                        E
The knot of tears around your throat is crystallizing into your design

           G#m          C#m         A
And in the night, the iron wheels rolling through the rain

          A                           C#m
Down the hills through the long grass to the sea

                       G#m          A     
And in the dark, the hard bells ringing with pain

A                                        C#m
Come away alone, come away alone with me