Tablature last farewell - Roger Whittaker

          



 THE LAST FAREWELL    Time: 4/4    Tenor: G    Bass: ??

  - Words: R. A. Webster, Music: Roger Whittaker, 1971

  - Record: Roger Whittaker: several!

  - Source: Roger Whittaker, His Finest Collection, page 38

  

  INTRO:  1,  57,  1,  57,  1

  

            *                    57           1         *

  There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbour

     *              17          4      *

  To-morrow for old England she sails

        *             *               *          *

  Far a-way from your land of endless sunshine

        2m           *               57      *

  To my land full of rainy skies and gales

      1             57                 1       *

  And I shall be on board that ship to-morrow

            *                17                 4      *

  Though my heart is full of tears at this fare-well

  

  

  CHORUS:

  

  2m     5       1      6m      2m               57

  .. For you are beauti-ful and I have loved you dearly

       2m              57              1      *

  More dearly than the spoken word can tell 

  2m     5       1      6m      2m               57

  .. For you are beauti-ful and I have loved you dearly

       2m              57              1      *

  More dearly than the spoken word can tell 

  

  

  I heard there's a wicked war a-blazing

  And the taste of war I know so very well

  Even now I see that foreign flag a-raising

  Their guns on fire as we sailed into hell

  I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow

  But how bitter will be this last farewell

  

  

  Though death and darkness gather all about me

  And my ship be torn apart upon the sea

  I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands

  In the heaving waves that brought me once to thee

  And should I return safe home again to England

  I shall watch the English mist roll through the dale

  

  

  NOTES:

  - L2: 6m on "England"

  - L4: 2m7 on "land", 4 on "rainy"

  - L6: 6m on "tears"

  - C2: 2m7 on "dearly"

   


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 Last farewell, de Roger whittaker 

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