Rod Macdonald

A Sailors Prayer Chords

           G
Though my sails be torn and tattered,
        G
And the mast be turned about,
        C                   D           G  
Let the night wind chill me to my very soul;
            G
Though the spray might sting my eyes,
         G
And the stars no light provide,
        C            D                G  
Give me just another morning light to hold.


Chorus: 
               D
And I will not lie me down,
             G
This rain a-ragin',
           D                     G
I will not lie me down in such a storm;
            G
And if this night be unblessed,
   C                Am
I shall not take my rest,
       D             G
Till I reach another shore.

           G
Though the only water left,
       G
Is but salt to wound my thirst,
       C                   D               G  
I will drink the rain that falls so steady down;
                   G
And though night's blindness be my gift,
             G
And there be thieves upon my drift,
       C                    D             G  
I will praise this fog that shelters me along.

Chorus

          G
Though my mates be drained and weary,
       G
And believe their hopes are lost,
           C                    D                 G  
There's no need for their bones on that blackened bottom;
                 G
And though death waits just off the bow,
               G
They shall not answer to him now,
         C                 D            G  
He shall stand to face the morning without us.

Chorus  x2