The Waterboys – The Stolen Child (Guitar)

      G          D            Em
Come away, human child to the water

      G          D            Em                  C
Come away, human child to the water and the wild

       G                    Am   C
With a faery, hand in hand

        G                    Am           C                  G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

                     D       Em                           G
Where dips the rocky highland of Sleuth Wood in the lake

                   D             Em
There lies a leafy island, where flapping herons wake

                 C     G
The drowsy water rats

                          Am
There we've hid our faery vats

               C   G
Full of berries

Am                    C   G
And of reddest stolen cherries

      G          D            Em
Come away, human child to the water

      G          D            Em                  C
Come away, human child to the water and the wild

       G                    Am   C
With a faery, hand in hand

        G                    Am           C                  G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

                  D                     Em                         G
Where the wave of moonlight glosses the dim grey sands with light

           D                   Em
Far off by furthest Rosses, we foot it all the night

                      C                           G
Weaving olden dances, mingling hands and mingling glances

                        Am
Till the moon has taken flight

                  C
To and fro we leap and chase the frothy bubbles

G                                   Am
While the world is full of troubles

               C
And is anxious in its sleep

      G          D            Em
Come away, human child to the water

      G          D            Em                  C
Come away, human child to the water and the wild

       G                    Am   C
With a faery, hand in hand

        G                    Am           C                  G
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

          D                     Em                               G
Where the wandering water gushes from the hills above Glen Carr

                  D                                 Em
In pools among the rushes that scarce could bathe a star

                       C                             G
We seek for slumbering trout and whispering in their ears

       Am                    C
We give them unquiet dreams

                        G                     Am
Leaning softly out from ferns that drop their tears

                       C
Over the young streams

          D             Em                G
Away with us he's going, the solemn-eyed

                       D             Em                          C
He'll hear no more the lowing of the calves on the warm hillside

                     G   Am
Or the kettle on the hob, sing peace into his breast

   C                  G     Am                   C
Or see the brown mice bob, around and around the oatmeal-chest

       G                D             Em
For he comes, the human child, to the water

   G                D            Em                  C
He comes, the human child to the water and the wild

       G                    Am   C
With a faery, hand in hand

       G                  Am           C                 G
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand

      D       Em   G
Human child

      D       Em   C
Human child

       G                    Am   C
With a faery, hand in hand

       G                  Am           C
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand

C
Than he can understand, he can understand