Shelter Chords

JOHN WILLIAMSON
Shelter
 
  written by Eric Bogle
  from the album "Warragul"
 
Transcribed by Daniel Schaumann
 
The song is played with a capo on the second fret, however the
transcripton will be done without taking the capo into account.
 
[Verse 1]
 
        G      D/F#      G
You can almost touch the ocean
           C              G
Shimmering in the distant haze,
       G           G/F#   Em
As you stand there on the mountain
        C                D
On this loveliest day of days.
      G        D/F#         G
Round half the world you've drifted
     C
Left no wild oats unsown,
    G        G/F#     Em
But now your view has shifted
        C            D         G
And you think you've just come home.
 
 
[VErse 2]
           G       D/F#    G
And you're drowning in the sunshine
     C                    G
As it pours down from the sky,
           G           G/F#    Em
And there's something stirring in your heart
       C                D
Bright colours fill your eyes.
        G           D/F#  G
As from here to the far horizon
   C
Your beauty does unfold,
    G        G/F#    Em
And oh, you look so lovely
 C         D         G
Dressed in green and gold.
 
[VErse 3]
       G       D/F#    G
To the homeless and the hungry
       C           G
May we always open doors,
        G         G/F#    Em
May the restless and the weary
    C                    D
Find safe harbour on our shores.
   G           D/F#   G
May she always be our dreamtime place
   C
Our spirit's glad release,
        G      G/F#   Em
May she always be our shelter
 C       D         G
May we always live in peace.
 
 
REPEAT INTRO
May we always live in peace.
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