Adieu To My Comrades

“Farewell to Tarwathie”

I tinkered with this to make it easier and more fun to play.
So if you are a traditionalist play line one (-6 6 6 -6) and lines two and four (-3′ 3 3 -3) as -3” 3 3 -3”.

4 5 4 4 -6   6   6    -6   4   -4   5

A-dieu to my com-rades for awhile we must part

4   5   4   4   -3’ 3   3   -3 4 -4   4

And like-wise the las-sie who’s sto-len my heart

5-4   4   5   6   -6   6   5   -4 4 -4   5

I’m bound off for Green-land and read-y to sail

4-4 5   4   4   -3’ 3   3   -3   4   -4   4

In hopes to find rich-es from hunt-ing the whale

Our ship she’s well rig-ged and re-ady to sail

Our crew they are an-xious to fol-low the whale

Where the ice-bergs do float and the storm-y winds blow

Where the land and the o-cean is cov-er’d with snow

The cold land of green-land is bar-ren and bare

No seed time or har-vest is e-ver known there

The birds here sing sweet-ly on moun-tain and dale

But there is nae a bird to sing to the whale