Nortabs

Steven Kvinlaug, 1983

C G F C   C G F G

          C                   G                      
I've been thinkin' since this morning, 
       F                C
When I saw the sun come up,
                   G                        
'bout good times I remember, 
        Dm/F           G
And the girl I used to love,
            C              G
Now there's no use running from the past, 
    F            E
and leaving it behind,
  C                 G
I know it's still a long way back, 
         F            C
but it's always on my mind.


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     C                   G    
Northwind please take me home 
              F                 C
You know that I've been gone so long
      F               G                  C
and I long to see her eyes and touch her hair, 
             F                G
And if she's there when I'm ashore
           C           Em     Am            
You know I won't leave her no more 
     Dm                  G
Northwind please take me home
              C
She's waiting there


C G F C   C G F G

This steamboat keeps on rolling,
and my spirits are way down,
It makes you feel so helpless,
When your feet are off the ground,
You can't drown all your sorrows,
'cause they'll follow where you go,
But if you're man enough to face 'em,
They won't matter much no more.


Ref.

Dm G C G

And if I die before
I get to see my home again,
and never get to tell my lady,
Just how wrong I've been,
I hope my loved ones lay me down,
beneath some shady tree,
and for my epitaph,
I'd like my final words to be..

Ref.


         Dm                  G                   C     F C 
... Northwind please take me home, she's waiting there