Ralph McTell – The Ferryman (Guitar)
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Am F G Em Am F G Em Oh, the traveller moving on the land, behold I give you, I give you the travelling man Am G F And he's very heavy laden with the questions in his burden G Am Lo, and I give you the travelling man Bb D Dsus4 D He has crossed the mountains, he has forded streams E7 A Asus4 A He has spent a long time surviving on his dreams D D/C D/B D/A# Many times he's tried to lighten up his heavy load D A Em F# But his compromises fail him and he ends back on the road
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Am F G Em Oh the traveller he is weary, the travelling man he is tired Am F G Em Am G F For the road is never ending in his fear he has cried aloud for a saviour G Am And in vain for a teacher, someone to lighten up the load Bb D Dsus4 D And he's heard the sounds of war in a gentle shower of rain E7 A Asus4 A And the whisperings of despair that he could not explain D D/C D/B D/A# The reason for his journey, or the reason it began D A Em F# Or was there any reason for the travelling man
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Am F G Em At last he reached a river so beautiful and wide Am F G Em But the current was so strong he could not reach the other side Am G F G Am And the weary travelling man looked for a ferryman strong enough to row against the tide Bb D Dsus4 D And the ferryman was old but he moved the boat so well E7 A Asus4 A Or did the river move the boat? The traveller could not tell D D/C D/B D/A# Said the ferryman, "You're weary and the answers that you seek D A Em F# Are in the singing river, listen humbly it will speak."
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Am F G Em Oh, the traveller closed his eyes and he listened and he heard Am F G Em Only the river murmuring and the beating of his heart Am G F Then he heard the river laughing, and he heard the river crying G Am And in it was the beauty and the sadness of the world Bb D Dsus4 D And he heard the sounds of dying, but he heard the sounds of birth E7 A Asus4 A And slowly his ears heard all the sounds of earth D D/C D/B D/A# The sounds blended together and they became a whole D A Em F# And the rhythm was his heartbeat to the music his soul
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Am F G Em And the river had no beginning, as it flowed into the sea Am F G Em And the seas filled the clouds and the rains filled the streams Am G F And as slowly as the sunrise, he opened up his eyes G Am To find the ferryman had gone, the boat moved gently on the tide Bb D Dsus4 D And the river flowed within him, and with it he was one E7 A Asus4 A And the seas moved around the earth, and the earth around the sun D D/C D/B D/A# And the traveller was the river, was the boat and ferryman D A Em F# Was the journey and the song that the singing river sang