Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

As you lie before me now, like a shadow

On a pea green sea

Never thought that I could find you so hollow

Laying into me

But this cup of wine

All salt and brine makes me sleepy

A sorrow so

A field of tears, that will never yield a single penny

But I don't know

I've got nothing to hold on to

Wished for gold so I could buy you a palace

By the riverside

You'd come in and I would fill your diamond chalice

You were still alive

But this cup of wine

All salt and brine makes me sleepy

A sorrow so

A field of tears, that will never yield a single penny

But I don't know

I've got nothing to hold on to

I've got nothing to hold on to

Were you sleepless, tearing at the air?

Was the water everywhere?

Were you fretful, to wade into the room?

I'd been wanting to hear from you

Oh, no

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Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (oh)

You're weary, lay him down

You did your time so thank you very much

Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (oh)

So now your hopes are all laid

But you hand it all away

Did his eyelids fix on empty chairs

You had traveled to lay beside?

A gentle torture to watch it all recede

And all the while your mother slept beside him

Oh, no

Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (oh)

You're weary, lay him down

You did your time so thank you very much

Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (oh)

So now your hopes are all laid

But you hand it all away

Were you sleepless, tearing at the air?

Was the water everywhere?

Were you fearful, and long to run away

From the cold clasp of Illinois?

Oh, no

Oh, No

Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (ooooooh)

You're weary, lay him down

You did your time so thank you very much

Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (oh)

So now your hopes are all laid

But you hand it all away

But you hand it all away

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh