Midnight Star chords

CAPO: 2nd Fret

Let me [C]tell you a story, it [F]happened long ago
When the [C]pines were dancing in the wind on the [G7]Mendocino shore
The [Am]town lights were blazing, there were [Em]parties everywhere
[F]It was [C]Christmas eve and [G]joy was in the [C]air

In the dark and stormy night [F]someone heard the sound
Of [C]something breaking on the rocks and a [G7]big ship going down
[Am]Some said they saw a light some [Em]swore it was a star
That [F]shone out there in the [C]night al[G]though it wasn't [C]far

In the grey light of morning they [F]walked along the sand
Finding [C]pieces of the ship but no [G7]sign of her hands
Ex[Am]cept a tiny pair of shoes and a [Em]woman's ragged coat
That [F]lay there at the [C]water's edge in the [G]driftwood and the [C]foam

Some said she sailed from India or the [F]coast of Oregon
Some [C]said by the size of her rigging it was [G7]some place far beyond
But [Am]why she sailed into a port closed [Em]down so long ago
Or if [F]all on board were [C]lost at sea [G]no one seemed to [C]know

The fire was crackling in the stove when he [F]heard the wailing cry
Of a [C]little baby in the night [G7]somewhere close outside
He [Am]grabbed his gun and he left the house, he [Em]thought it was A cat
But he [F]found a [C]woman with a [G]babe, fallen in her [C]tracks

She was cold, her eyes were glazed, her [F]skin was ghostly white
He [C]tried to make her speak, she just [G7]handed him the child
[Am]And then she passed into that [Em]endless sleep
And he [F]knelt [C]beside her on the [G]trail and he began to [C]weep

Rushing home he stoked the fire and he [F]bathed the weary babe
Its [C]skin was brown as a hazel nut, its [G7]eyes of greenest jade
In [Am]age it was about two years or [Em]maybe six months more
But he [F]had the look of a [C]wise old man who'd [G]been this way be[C]fore

And so he stayed and he filled the heart of the [F]man that he called dad
And [C]Shipwreck Star was the only name that [G7]boy-child ever had
His [Am]mama, she lies buried in the [Em]manzanita and the pines
Where the [F]wild azaleas [C]bloom in the [G]fog-bound summer[C]time