transcribed by Greg Steele - http://www.gregorysteele.com
gsteele@steelerubber.com - 73522.2331@compuserve.com

"Mountains To The Sea" - by Dan Fogelberg 1989 (from the CD "Portrait")

Standard tuning

Intro: Am  Em/A (x02000)  Am  Em/A  Am  Em/A
 
        Fmaj7 (xx3210)
Well, I spent two days in travelling

    Am        G      Am
The mountains to the sea

  Fmaj7
I knew the change would do me good

    C      G      Am
And set my spirit free

  Fmaj7
I spent two nights in wondering

        C         G       D/F# (200232)
What it is you've done to me

  Em             E7             Am        Em/A   Am  Em/A  Am  Em/A  Am  Em/A
Before an answer came, I reached the sea


Here I spend my days in wandering
The reaches and the reefs
And my soul becomes so quiet I can
Hear my own beliefs
I sail out on the ocean
'Til I cannot see the land
And I wonder if you'll ever understand


Bridge:
      Dm                G
Why a soul with so much heaven held
           x20010
       C    C9/B    Am
Should ever feel so damned

    Dm                   G
And why it's always so uncomfortable

   C      C9/B    Am 
To hold another's hand

       Dm            G
Why of late I feel myself a ship

C      C9/B    Am
Out to sea - unmanned

  Dm               E7        Am     Em/A   Am   Em/A
I wonder if you'll ever understand

(verse chords)
There are seagulls in the morning here
I watch them search and soar
As they dive to take the fishes
That swim just beyond the shore
Then they fly off in the distance
'Til they finally fade from view
And somehow, they remind me so of you

(use bridge chords)
There's so many things you need to learn
That I can never teach
And places in your troubled soul
That I may never reach
So I wander like an ebbing tide
Along this lonely beach
And cast my dreams like stones into the sea