Tonart: G major
Verse 1
F#
B
F#
C#
F#
B
F#
C#
F#
Into the water,
B
F#
so clear an d blue
C#
F#
The crowds are cheering,
B
F#
willing her through
C#
F#
She wins the heat,
B
but the next brings tears
F#
C#
The dream is over for four
F#
B
F#
more years
Verse 2
C#
F#
Back in the homeland she
B
F#
strained and strived
C#
F#
B
F#
Each day she sweated, from e'er a child
C#
F#
B
To clinch the gold and the coloured rings
F#
And give the hearts of
B
C#
F#
B
the masses wings
Verse 3
F#
B
A#m
But darkness came to her Syria
G#
F#
With bombs and bullets,
B
D#m
the reign of war
F#
C#
F#
B
Through burning Lebanon, she had to flee
F#
Her dreams behind her,
C#
F#
down to the sea
Verse 4
D#m
F#
D#m
F#
D#m
F#
Into a boat there, by dark of night
D#m
With 20 strangers,
F#
D#m
A#m
F#
all taking flight
D#m
F#
C#
F#
B
F#
So overburdened, the en gine fails
C#
F#
B
G#
F#
In open water without a sail
A#sus4
A#m
G#m
Verse 5
A#m
F#
B
F#
They're too far out now,
B
F#
no turning back
C#
F#
Nothing behind them
B
F#
to bring them back
C#
F#
B
The young and old now will surely drown
F#
C#
Miles from safe harbour without
D#m
F#
a sound
D#m
F#
D#m
F#
Verse 6
F#
C#
F#
Into the water, so dark and cold
D#m
C#
F#
B
F#
Her and her sis ter , they pull the boat
C#
F#
Their faces frozen, limbs tired and weak
C#
F#
B
Over the abyss of the Ae
Verse 7
F#
"Remember when we swam
D#m
F#
before school
B
F#
The sea is only a bigger pool
C#
F#
C#
D#m
F#
It's just the gold now is in the boat
D#m
F#
Tied to these rings at
C#
F#
the ends of rope"
Verse 8
B
C#
And if the ancients had known
C#
B
She'd be the pride of
C#
D#m
all ancient Greece
C#
B
She'd have the gold and
C#
B
the laurel wreaths
C#
Great Alexander would have
Verse 9
C#
B
C#
And from that day forward most
C#
B
They'd know the fame of
C#
D#m
that brave young girl
E#dim
C#
B
Who lost her home but who
C#
B
saved the dream
C#
F#
And held it gleaming for all to see
C#
B
C#
Who gave back hope to a world
Verse 10
C#
B
And showed through courage
C#
D#m
disgraced ath letes
C#
B
Who gave back meaning
C#
B
most real again
They chant that noble
C#
Olympi
Verse 11
F#
a
C#
F#
Olympia
C#
F#
Olympia
C#
B
Olympia
C#
Verse 12
B
F#
Into the water,
B
F#
so clear and blue
C#
F#
The crowds are cheering,
B
F#
willing her through
C#
F#
She wins the heat,
B
but the next brings tears
F#
C#
The dream is over for four
B
F#
C#
B
F#
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