Grey Foggy Day keyboard

Grey Foggy Day

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Great traditional Newfoundland song in 6/8 time.

Capo III

Chorus between each verse.

G  D  G

               C
It's been some years ago
                     G
Since I left from my island
             D
To go to the mainland,
                         G    C  G
Like the old folks would say;
                   C
As I walked up the gangway
                   G
And I stood on the starboard
                   D
And I gazed on the harbour
                G    C  G
On a grey foggy day.

(Chorus)
                      C
Summer days they were warmer then
                         G
When we laughed with the old fishermen,
                         D
And they cursed when the fog rolled in,
                      G    C  G
Then they made up the hay;
                      C
It's been more than a long, long time
                      G
Since I held you and called you mine,
                      D
And we waited for the sun to shine
                G   C  G
On a grey foggy day.

               C
To wake in the early morn
                    G
To the sound of the old fog horn,
                 D
And wait for the men to return
                        G    C  G
With their boats in the bay;
                         C
All these things I don't see no more
                    G
When I lived on the old cape shore,
                   D
And I gazed on the boats on the moors
                G    C  G
On a grey foggy day.


                      C
Summer days they were warmer then
                         G
When we laughed with the old fishermen,
                         D
And they cursed when the fog rolled in,
                      G    C  G
Then they made up the hay;
                      C
It's been more than a long, long time
                      G
Since I held you and called you mine,
                       D
And we waited for the sun to shine
                G    C  G
On a grey foggy day.
                 
                  C
And as long as my heart don't break,
                   G
From those old memories,
                D
Old lovers and old used-to-be's,
                   G     C  G
I'll come home to stay;
                     C
I can still hear the ocean roar
                          G
Through the hills on the old cape shore,
                     D
There are no fishing boats anymore,
                      G    C  G
But it's a grey foggy day.

                      C
Summer days they were warmer then
                         G
When we laughed with the old fishermen,
                         D
And they cursed when the fog rolled in,
                      G    C  G
Then they made up the hay;
                      C
It's been more than a long, long time
                     G
Since I held you and called you mine,
                      D
And we waited for the sun to shine
                G    C  G
On a grey foggy day.

                    D
And I pray that the sun will shine ....
                   G     C   G
On this grey foggy day.

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