Guitar / Voice.

Henry Russell
1812 - 1900

A Life on
The Ocean Wave

A Life on the Ocean Wave

Vivace

Voice

Guitar

Music: Henry Russell

Lyrics: Epes Sargent
1838

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home on the rol - ling

deep!

life on the o - cean wave!

III

Where the

scatter' - d

wa - ters

rave,

And the

16

wind their re - vels keep!

mf

Transcription by Tony Wilkinson 2011.

home on the rol - ling

III

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deep!

Where the scatter' - d wa - ters rave,

Ea - gle cag'd

pine

And the winds their re - vels keep!

On this dull

un - chang - ing

Like an

shore,

Oh

ff

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give me the flash - ing

brine,

The spray and the tem - pest's roar.

a tempo

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life on the o - cean wave,

mf
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scatter' - d

wa - ters

rave,

home on the rol - ling

the winds,

And the winds their re - vels

deep!

42

winds,

the winds

Where the

keep!

The

their re - vels

ad lib.

keep!

The

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winds,

the

winds,

the winds

their re - vels keep!

50

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own

swift gli - ding

craft,

gale fol - lows fair

a - baft.

own

stand

Of my

sail!

swift gli - ding craft.

fare - well to the

land,

The

mf

Set

sail!

Of my

fare - well to the land,

The

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gale fol - lows fair

a - baft.

Set

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63

Once more on the deck

We shoot through the

ff

spark - ling foam,

Like an

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o - cean bird

set

free,

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find far out on

the

sea!

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home on the rol - ling

deep!

home

We'll

life on the o

- cean

wave!

mf

And the

winds

a tempo

winds their re - vels keep,

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o - cean bird, our

Where the scatter' - d wa - ters rave,

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ad lib.

Like the

The

winds,

the

winds,

the

their re - vels

keep,

The

winds,

the

winds,

the

91

winds their re - vels keep