Chords
Cyclone Of Raye Cove

Key: G

Introduction: G    C    G    D    G    C    G    D    G    

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          Oh listen today in the story I'll tell,
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          in sadness and tear dimmed eyes,
                             G                                                    C                      G  
          of a dreadful cyclone that came this way,
                                                     D                         G  
          and blew our schoolhouse away.
             C                                                    G  
Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
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the place of my childhood and home,
                G                                                 C                                    G  
where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
                                             D                         G  
but now it's so silent and lone.
 C  G  D  G  C  G  D  G)  
                                     G                                                    C                            G  
          When the cyclone appeared, it darkened the air,
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          yet the lightnings flashed over the sky,
                                     G                                                                 C                    G  
          and the children all cried, “Don't take us away,
                                                     D                    G  
          and spare us to go back home !"
             C                                                    G  
Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
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the place of my childhood and home,
                G                                                 C                                    G  
where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
                                             D                         G  
but now it's so silent and lone.
                                          G                                                 C                            G  
          There were mothers so dear and fathers the same
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          that came to this terrible scene,
             G                                                                 C                                      G  
          searching and crying each found their own child,
                                          D                         G  
          dying on a pillow of stone.
             C                                                    G  
Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
                                                                                  D  
the place of my childhood and home,
                G                                                 C                                    G  
where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
                                             D                         G  
but now it's so silent and lone.
                     G                                                    C                              G  
          Oh give us a home far beyond the blue sky,
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          where storms and cyclones are unknown,
                          G                                                                         C                                    G  
          and there by life's strand we'll clasp this glad hand,
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          like children in their heavenly home.
             C                                                    G  
Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
                                                                                  D  
the place of my childhood and home,
                G                                                 C                                    G  
where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
                                             D                         G  
but now it's so silent and lone.
 G  D  G)