The Storms Are on the Ocean

Carter Family

Waltz Time

C F C
Im going away to leave you love
G C
Im going away for a while
F C
But Ill return to you some day
G C
If I go ten thousand miles

Chorus
F C
The storms are on the ocean
G C
The heavens may cease to be
F C
This world may lose its motion love
G C
If I prove false to thee

 C F C
Oh who will shoe your pretty little feet
G C
Who will glove your hand
F C
Who will kiss your rosy red cheeks
G C
When I'm in a foreign land

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C F C
Papa will shoe my pretty little feet
G C
And mama will glove my hand
F C
And you can kiss my rosy red cheeks
G C
When you return again

Repeat Chorus

C F C
Oh have you seen that mournful dove
G C
Flying from pine to pine
F C
Shes mourning for her own true love
G C
Just like I mourn for mine

Repeat Chorus

C F C
Ill never go back on the ocean love
G C
Ill never go back on the sea
F C
Ill never go back on the blue-eyed girl
G C
Till she goes back on me

Repeat Chorus