From: “Alan Menken Songbook”

Sailing On
by

ALAN MENKEN

Lyrics by: DEAN PITCHFORD

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 SAILING ON
Lyrics by Music by
DEAN PITCHFORD ALAN MENKEN

Steadily
B B(add4) B
x x o x

B(add4) G m G m/B
x o x x
4

When I was four or five or six the

Sea gulls ric - o - cheted a - gainst the

C m7 E D 7sus
x o oo xx
4

sea rocked me to sleep. And sim - ple dreams would

dia - mond hard blue sea. Mer - maids sang and

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D 7 D 7/G G m/F
xx xx xx

float to me like bub - bles from the deep. And

fly - ing fish would dance on air for me. I

C m7 D m7 E(add2)
x x o o
4 6

sleep was like some o - pi - um I smoked on for - eign

made it home by sun - rise as day - light filled the

Fm7( 5) B/F
xx

shores. And dol - phins saw me safe - ly on as my

air. My face was wet with brine and foam and

Bsus/F F 7 E
x o oo
2

heart - strings pulled the oars. (1.2.) And the ship was my
sand spilled from my hair. (D.S.) ship is my

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F /E E F /E
xx o oo xx

bed and the waves were my pil - low. And the

bed and the waves are my pil - low. And the

D m7 G m7 D m7
x x
6 4 6

dark sky breathed and the sheets used to bil -

dark sky breathes and the sheets they all bil -

G m7 C m7 Bsus/F F
x x
4 4 2

- low. And I’d go sail - ing on,

- low. And I go sail - ing on,

D m7 G m7 C m7
x x
6 4 4

sail - ing on. I’d go sail - ing

sail - ing on. I go sail - ing

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To Coda 1.
Bsus/F F 7 B E/B
x x x oo
2

on my dreams.
on my

B E/B 2. B
x x oo x

dreams.

Bsus Emaj7
x xx
2

The north - wind took me to

D m9 G m7
x x
4 4

God knows where. O - ceans un -

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C 7sus C 7 E/F C m7
x x x oo x
4 4
4

chart - ed, drunk with salt air.

E/F G m D m7
x oo x
4 6

G m/D C m
x x
4 4

E/F F 6
x oo x x

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E/F
x oo

Bsus/F F G m
x
2 4

And ev - ’ry now and then I feel the

C m D 7sus
x xx
4

need to take to sea, give my - self to whin -

D 7 G sus(add2) G m7/F
xx xx
4

- ing winds and just go sail - ing free. I

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C m7 Bsus2/D B/D E(add2)
x x xx xo o o
4

on - ly need to lay me down, breathe so mild and

E m7( 5) B/F
xx

then the o - cean’s rhy - thms sweep

Bsus/F F 7
x
2 D.S. al Coda

me up and I’m a child a - gain. And the

Coda x
B Bsus
x
B Cm7
x x
2 3

dreams. Sail - ing on,

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F 7 D m7 G m7
x
6 4

sail - ing on, I go

C m7 Bsus/F
x x
4 2

sail - ing on my

rit.

B B(add4) B
x x o x

dreams.

a tempo rit.

B(add4) B
x o x

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