Children's Song

 





(Live/1972 version)




[Intro]:   G



G
All along the ocean floor 
D               G
Unseen fish are swimming 
G
High among the mountains 
          D               G
There are watchful eagles winging 
C
Brown and wise, the forest eyes 
G                  D
Peep from their disguise 
          G
While the household fly with the compound eye 
D                      G        C    D    G
Sees one man a hundred times! 


G
When I was a kid in school 
  D                   G
I learned to read and write 
G
And every morning in the hall 
   D                 G
we sang with all our might 
C
School days are happy days but 
G                D   *(Dsus4  D)
then you have to go 
       G
And it only takes two hours to put down 
D               G       C    D    G
all you need to know 


G
All along the ocean floor 
D               G         *(Gsus4  G  Gsus4  G)
Unseen fish are swimming
G
High among the mountains 
          D               G        *(Gsus4  G)
There are watchful eagles winging 
C 
Brown and wise, the forest eyes 
G                  D
Peep from their disguise 
          G
While the household fly with the compound eye 
D                      G        C    D    G
Sees one man a hundred times 


C             G
I'm a boy and you're a girl, 
  D             G
together we can save the world 
C              G
If at first we don't succeed, 
     D          G
each generation sows its seed 
C                          G
While there's life there's hope they say 
    D                  G
but death comes in the strangest ways 
C                  G 
Sometimes fast and sometimes slow but 
D           *(Dsus4 D)                      G   
when it comes,        you'll be the last to know 


    *(Gsus4 G)   C   D   G


G           *(Gsus4) G
All along the ocean  floor 
D               G        *(Gsus4 G)
Unseen fish are swimming 
G
High among the mountains 
          D               G       *(Gsus4 G)
There are watchful eagles winging 
C
Brown and wise, the forest eyes 
G                  D
Peep from their disguise 
          G 
While the household fly with the compound eye 
D                      G        C   D   G   D   G
Sees one man a hundred times 



NB:
     *In the recording, the Gsus4 and Dsus4 chords (indicated
      by * ) are just very brief passing chords played in the 
      background, and can be omitted.







          Used to be known as All Along The Ocean Floor, by us, anyway, since the words Children's Song never appear in it at all, so hey, how the heck would we know that is what it was called? We're mot mind readers, you know! Sheesh!