The Storms Are On The Ocean Chords

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The Storms Are On The Ocean by The Carter Family is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			            C          F        C                                         G              C 
    I'm going away to leave you, love, I'm going away for awhile, 
                  F          C                                         G           C 
    but I'll return to you some time, if I go ten thousand miles. 

          F                          C                F                    G          C 
The storms are on the ocean, the heavens may cease to be, 
         F                            C                               G            C 
this world may lose its motion, love, if I prove false to thee. 

             C            F                C                                         G              C 
    Oh, who will dress your pretty little feet, oh, who will glove your hand. 
                         F             C                                             G        C 
    Oh, who will kiss your rosy red cheek, when I'm in a far off land? 

          F                          C                F                    G          C 
The storms are on the ocean, the heavens may cease to be, 
         F                            C                               G            C 
this world may lose its motion, love, if I prove false to thee. 

           C                F             C                                                G            C 
    Oh,Poppa will dress my pretty little feet,and Momma will glove my hand. 
                    F          C                                            G        C 
    You can kiss my rosy red cheeks, when you return again. 

          F                          C                F                    G          C 
The storms are on the ocean, the heavens may cease to be, 
         F                            C                               G            C 
this world may lose its motion, love, if I prove false to thee. 

            C              F                  C                                       G         C 
    Oh, have you seen those mournful doves, flying from pine to pine, 
                        F           C                                     G             C 
    a-mourning for their own true love just like I mourn for mine. 

          F                          C                F                    G          C 
The storms are on the ocean, the heavens may cease to be, 
         F                            C                               G            C 
this world may lose its motion, love, if I prove false to thee. 

           C           F                 C                                      G                C 
    I'll never go back on the ocean, love, I'll never go back on the sea, 
                         F                      C                                        G          C 
    I'll never go back from the blue-eyed girl, till she goes back on me. 

          F                          C                F                    G          C 
The storms are on the ocean, the heavens may cease to be, 
         F                            C                               G            C 
this world may lose its motion, love, if I prove false to thee. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante