Sad Jonah

SAD JONAH words & music copyright G. Seal 1972

Both a true story and an allegory on 'tripping', this song was published by Mike O'Rourke in 'The Living Daylights' of the Nation Review, around 1973.

G               Am7                    G

The tide is flowing down the sand 

        Am7                  G

And ebbing from the shore

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Sad Jonah is going from the land 

F             G           F C     G    Am7 G

Unto the sea once more

He flies on weather-beaten wings

And wanders with the waves

Blown on by ever-beating winds

Over silent sailors’ graves

Drowned in the well of deepest night

Sad Jonah dreams and drifts

Lost in the spell of never-ending flight

Until the night wind shifts

The morning tide creeps back to land

As the dreaming fades and ends

Sad Jonah weeps upon the sand

           F                       G      F         C              G     Am7 

For he knows he must go again - and again and again