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The Reach Tab

by Dan Fogelberg


1992
Article: 853 of alt.guitar.tab
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
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I've been really enjoying alt.guitar for the last few weeks and I just stumbled
on to alt.guitar.tab.... Jeez Louise, I pulled 24 songs off the net yesterday.
I thought I'd better give some back.  Here's a few I've had around here.  Please
enjoy, I'll be posting some more soon.


                                   The Reach
                                by Dan Fogelburg
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It's Maine and it's Autumn
                              
The Birches have just begun turning

It's life and it's dying
                               
The lobsterman's boats come returning
                                
With the catch of the day in their holds
                                
And the young boys cold and complaining

The fog meets the beaches

And out on the Reach it is raining.    -       ...     -    

--

It's father and son
                                        
It's the way it's been done since the old days

It's hauling by hand ten miles out from the land
                
Where their chow waits
                              
And the days are all lonley and long
                                     
And the seas grow so stormy and strong, but...

The Reach will sing welcome

as homeward they hurry along

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CHORUS:
        
	And the morning will blow away
                                
	As the waves crash and fall
                             
	And The Reach like a siren sings
                             
	As she beckons and calls
                            
	As the coastline recedes from view
                               
	And the seas swell and grow
                             
	I will take from The Reach
                             
	All the she has to teach
                            
	To the depths of my soul

--

The wind brings a chill
                                     
There's a frost on the sill in the morning

It creeps through the door
                                
And out on the shore, ice is forming
                                
Soon the Northers will bluster and blow
                                      
And the woods will be whitened with snowfall
        
And The Reach will lie frozen

For the lost and unchosen to row.

CHORUS:
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Note:  D-  I don't know the name of this chord, but it's just a D with
	   your finger off the E string.

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