Billy Joel - The Winter Crossing

[Intro]
Gm

[Verse 1]
Bb/C Cm9
When I was just a boy I dreamt
Ab Eb F
I’d run away to sea
Gm Bb/C Cm9
And sign aboard some merchant ship
Ab Eb F Bb
And sail across the ocean

[Verse 2]
Gm Bb/C Cm9
When I became a man I put
Ab Eb F
My childhood things away
Gm Bb/C Cm9
And gave up all the dreams I had
Ab Eb F Bb
Of sailing on the ocean

[Chorus 1]
C7/Bb
So long, so long
F/A Dm7 Gsus4 G
I wave goodbye to my old friend the sea
Bb7/Ab Gm7
It’s winter time and you know
Gm Cm7 Cm G/D D
I’m not what I used to be

[Verse 3]
Gm Bb/C Cm9
Sometimes I feel so far away
Ab Eb F
From all the ones I love
Gm Bb/C Cm9
The storm that raged along this coast
Ab Eb F Bb
Keep every ship from sailing

[Verse 4]
Gm
And who would brave
Bb/C Cm9 Ab Eb F
A voyage in the January gales
Gm Bb/C Cm9
The boy who ran away to sea
Ab Eb F Bb
Can make the winter crossing

[Chorus 2]
C7/Bb
Come on, come on
F/A
He cried, come with me
Dm7 Gsus4 G
To the other shore
Bb7/Ab Gm7 Gm
But I’ve been gone too long to make
Cm7 Cm G/D D
The crossing anymore

[Outro]
Gm Bb/C Cm9 Ab Eb F Gm Bb/C Cm9 Ab Eb F Bb

Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Ebmaj7 A7sus4 A D D/C G G/C F Eb6 Gm/D D7 Gm