Tonart: E minor
Verse 1
Em
Am
D
Am
All my children
Interlude 1
Am
Em
D
Em
Verse 2
Em
The navigator said to the engineer
I think our radio's dead
I can hear but I can't send
And there's bad weather up ahead
Verse 3
Am
The pilot said to the co- pilot
Our right engine's gone
But if we can make it over
these mountains
D
Am
D
Perhaps I can set her down
Verse 4
B
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B
Em
All my children of the sun
Verse 5
Em
Five hundred miles from nowhere
We belly landed on a river
We bid a quick goodbye
Verse 6
To that ship of silver
Am
Twenty- five piled out the window
Twenty reached the shore
D
Am
We turned to see our metal bird
D
Am
D
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Sink to rise no more
Verse 7
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B
Em
my children of the sun
Verse 8
Em
We found some floating logs
We found some sharp stones
We cut some vines and made a raft
Am
It was our only hope
Verse 9
Am
A town somewhere downstream
So now each man tried his best
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To paddle as a team
Verse 10
Em
All except one young guy
A
Em
Who kept arguing with the navigator
He said he'd read about a waterfall
Verse 11
We would come to sooner or later
Am
D
Am
At a river's bend he persuaded us
To bring our raft to beach
But a search party found
the river smooth
B
As far as eye could reach
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All my children
Verse 12
B
D
Em
of the sun
Verse 13
Em
Once again he persuaded
us to stop
We cursed at the delay
Once again we found the river
Esus4
Em
Flowing on the same old way
Verse 14
Am
You give us all a pain
D
Am
Why don't you pitch in and do your part
D
Am
Be constructive for a change?"
Verse 15
B
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B
Em
All my children of the sun
Verse 16
Am
Em
Still egg head kept on talking
In the same long winded way
We said, "If you won't paddle
Get the hell out of our way"
Verse 17
Am
We told him to go sit
D
Am
Far back at the stern
D
Then we strained to paddle harder
Am
D
An d then the river made a turn
Verse 18
B
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B
Em
All my children of the sun
Verse 19
Em
One paddler heard sound of tapping
And what he saw, when he did turn
Was egghead with a sharp stone
Cutting the vines that bound the stern
Verse 20
Em
With a cry of rage the paddler
Leaped up to his feet
He swung his long pole
Knocked egghead into the deep
Verse 21
Am
D
But now the logs were splaying out
Am
The raft had come unbound
Like mad we paddled for the shore
D
Before we all would drown
Verse 22
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B
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B
All my children
Verse 23
Em
A
Am
D
Em
A search party went out to find more vines
D
Esus4
To tie the raft up tight
D
Am
Em
In twenty minutes they returned
Their faces pale with fright
Verse 24
Am
They said a quarter mile down the river
We found a waterfall
D
Am
It's over a hundred feet in height
It could have killed us all
Verse 25
D
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B
All my children of the sun
Em
Verse 26
Esus4
Em
And that is why on the banks
Of a far off wilderness stream
Am
Which none of us, none of us
Verse 27
D
There stands a cross for someone
Am
D
Hardly older than a boy
Am
D
Who we thought was only
Trying to destroy
Verse 28
Outro 1
my children of the sun
Em
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