Key: C
Introduction: C
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On a bright September day in fall
F C
We sailed away from Montreal
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And I hung upon the railing high
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And I waved the world I knew goodbye
G F C
Sailed from home across the sea
G F C
The other side, the heart of me
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And I just stood and waved my hand
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In my world in the promised land
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And we ran like hares, ran through the close
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Doon tae the burn, in spate it rose
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We stood on the bridge by the bowling green
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laughed our words in steady streams
G F C
The arc of stone across the river
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And a moment hung in time forever
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And the sun shone on us, every man
F C
In my world in the promised land
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Night came black, with death adorning
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Grampa's dead and Granny's mourning
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Brithers and sisters all came doon
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Sat there greeting in the living room
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The emptiness of what was left
G F C
We sat there in that house of death
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And we hung our heads and wrung our hands
F C
In my world in the promised land
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So I never saw him lying there
F C
I never climbed the scaffold stair
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My father left it up to me
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To choose to see or not to see
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But death's a road we walk alone
G F C
But I read the words upon the stone
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He's sitting still, his pipe in hand
F C
In my world in the promised land
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Oh, he's sitting still, his pipe in hand
F C
Oh, in my world in the promised land