Capo on 3
Listen to the song for fingerpicking, alternate the bass line between the the bottom 3 strings, depending on
the chord used.
C: 0 3 0 2 1 0
Em/C: 0 2 0 0 1 0
F: 1 0 3 2 1 0 (play bottom string 1 with your thumb
Dmin 0 0 0 2 1 3
Am: 0 0 2 2 1 0
G: 3 2 0 0 2 2
C Em/C F C
Oh Sandy Grey, are you going away?
C Em/C Dmin (Trill 1st finger)
Leave me a message before parting
C Em/C Am
Time has changed you and the things that pain you
F G
Are the things you think of as you're starting
Instrumental Break F G F G
C Em/C F C
Oh Sandy Grey, it's only this I'll pray
C Em/C Dmin (Trill 1st finger)
That you might stay here one more day in laughter
C Em/C Am
Won't you hang around and hold me, repeat all the lies you told me?
F G
Do your rambling after
Instrumental Break F - G - F - G
C Em/C F C
Oh Sandy Grey, what ever made you want to stay?
C Em/C Dmin (Trill 1st finger)
And now what makes you want to be a-leaving?
C Em/C Am
Is it the same thing they found when they laid your father down
F G
Or are your reasons even worth retrieving?
C Em/C F C
Oh Sandy Grey, don't leave me just today
C Em/C Dmin (Trill 1st finger)
Don't think on the road you'll be a-going
C Em/C Am
Think of all the time and the days we've had to mind
F G
Of the future there's no way of knowing
C Em/C F C
Oh Sandy Grey, I thought I heard you say
C Em/C Dmin (Trill 1st finger)
That you ain't heard one word that I've been speaking
C Em/C Am
There's no use in trying you escaping from my mind
F G
And I'll never see the world you're seeking