CG/BFCG/BF
[Verse]
CG/BAmF
Backward, turn backward, Time in your flight
CG/BDmG
Make me a child again, just for tonight
CG/BDmAm
Mother, come back from the echoless shore
CG/BAmF
Take me again to your heart like before
[Verse]
CG/BAmF
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care
CG/BDmG
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair
CG/BDmAm
Over my slumber your loving watch keep
CG/BAmF
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep
[Verse]
CG/BAmF
Backward, flow backward, tide of the years
CG/BDmG
I am so weary of toil and of tears
CG/BDmAm
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain
CG/BAmF
Take them and give me my childhood again
[Verse]
CG/BAmF
For I have grown weary of dust and decay
CG/BDmG
Weary of flinging my soul wealth away
CG/BDmAm
Weary of sowing for others to reap
CG/BAmF
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep
[Bridge]
CGDm7Am
Mother, oh mother, my heart calls for you
CG/BCF
Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue
CAmDm7G
Many's a summer the grass has grown green
CG/BDm7G
Blossomed and faded, our faces - between
[Verse]
CG/BAmF
Backward, oh backward, Time in your flight
CG/BDmG
Make me a child again, just for tonight
CG/BDmAm
Come from the silence so long and so deep
CG/BAmF
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep
CG/BCAm
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep
[Outro]
AmFCG/BFCG/BF
Rock me to sleep
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Rock me to sleep