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Shenandoah

Traditional:

courtesy of www.SailorSongs.com

This song is available as a recording to download or buy a cd from our Sea Shanty Store- See the chords at bottom of the page


Oh Shenandoah I long to hear you
A------way you rolling river  
Oh Shenandoah I long to hear you
    
A way I’m bound a way ‘cross the wide Missouri

     
Oh Shenandoah I love your daughter
A-----way you rolling river       
Oh Shenandoah I love your daughter
   
Away I’m bound a way ‘cross the wide Missouri

       
‘Tis seven long years since last I saw you
A---way you rolling river      
‘Tis seven long years since last I saw you 

Away I’m bound away ‘cross the wide Missouri

        
Oh Shenandoah I love your daughter
A---way you rolling river  
    
Oh Shenandoah I’ll come to claim her  

Away I’m bound away ‘cross the wide Missouri

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CHORDS

Oh (D) Shenandoah I long to (G)hear(D) you  a  (G) way you rolling (D)river

Oh (G)shenandoah I(F#m) long to (Em)hear (D)you  a (Bm)way I'm bound (A)away

'Cross the (D)wide Miss(A)ou(D)ri                

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