Key: B
Bb
C
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
C
Eb
Baby stands before that open window looking so far away
Bb
C
Eb
Bb
He can almost feel the southern winds blow
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
Gently touching his restless day
F7
Eb
Bb
He turns from his window to me
Eb
Dm
Eb
Sad smile his apology sad eyes reaching to the door
Bb
C
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
C
Eb
Daylight loses to another evening and still he spares me the word
goodbye
Bb
C
Eb
Bb
He sits alone beside me fighting his feelings
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
Struggles to speak but in the end can only cry
F7
Eb
Bb
Suddenly it's so hard to find
Eb
Dm
The sound of the words to speak his troubled mind
Eb
Dm
So I'm offering these to him as if to be kind
Bb
Eb
F
Bb
There's a train every day leaving either way
C
Eb
Bb
C
There's a world you know there's a way to go and
Eb
F7
Gm
Eb
Bb
You'll soon be gone it's just as well this is my opening farewell
Bb
C
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
C
Eb
A child's drawings left on the table and a woman's silk lying on the
floor
Bb
C
Eb
Bb
I would keep them here if I were able
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
To lock you safe behind this open door
Eb
Bb
But suddenly it's so clear to me
Eb
Dm
That I asked you to see what you may never see
Eb
Dm
And now my kind words find their way back to me
Bb
Eb
F
Bb
There's a train every day leaving either way
C
Eb
Bb
C
There's a world you know got a way to go and
Eb
F7
Gm
Eb
Bb
You'll soon be gone it's just as well this is my opening farewell
From Bonnie Raitt "Sweet Forgiveness"