G D Em G D Em
C G Am C G Am C
[Chorus]
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
[Verse] (Spoken)
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse] (Spoken)
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse] (Spoken)
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
[Instrumental]
G D Em G D Em
C G Am C G Am C G
[Verse] (Spoken)
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
[Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
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
