Shelter    (intro)

 

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1. I'm drowning in the sunshine as it falls down from the sky,

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    there's something stirring in my heart, bright colours fill my eyes.

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    It's from here to the far horizon         your beauty does unfold,

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    and oh, you look so lovely, dressed in      green and gold.

 

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2. I can almost touch the ocean, shimmering in the distant haze,

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    as I stand here on this mountain on this loveliest day of days.

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    Around half the world I've drifted,        left no wild oats unsown,

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    but now my view has shifted and I think, I've       just come home.

 

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3. To the homeless and the hungry, may you always open doors,

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    may the restless and the weary find safe harbour on our shores.

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    May you always be our dreamtime place,       our spirit's glad release,

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   may you always be our shelter, may we always live in peace.

 

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4. So I'm drowning in the sunshine as it falls down from the sky,

                 G                        Em                           C                    D

    there's something stirring in my heart, bright colours fill my eyes.

                  G                D       G     - C                 

    It's from here to the far horizon        your beauty does unfold,

           G            D        Em         C               D             G   - Em

    and oh, you look so lovely, dressed in green and gold.

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    Dressed in green and gold.

 

    (Eric Bogle)