Times Played 303
First Played 04-16-2003
Last Played 07-16-2025
Lyrics:
- Capo 3rd fret
- E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- B|----------------0-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- G|-------0--2--2-----2--0------------------------------------------------------0-----------0-
- D|--0h2--------------------2--2--0-----0--0--2--0-----------------0--0--2-----2--0--2---
- A|--------------------------------------3---------------3--------0--2---------------------------
- E|----------------------------------------------------------3--3----------------------------------
- E|--------------------
- B|--------0-----------
- G|--2--2-----2--0--2
- D|--------------------
- A|--------------------
- E|--------------------
- Verse: Am C G G* Em Am
- Chorus: Am G Am Am* Am; Am G Am Em Am x2
- Bridge: F Am x3; G F x2
- I'm just a traveler passing through
- I wont haunt or bother you
- Though you could lend an ear to my story
- You can call me old Jack
- You might have seen me caped in Black
- As I roam the streets of the village
- In her long flowing hair
- You might find my story there
- Though it was not my own hand that killed her
- I went down a moon lit trail
- Rode out on a rail
- And began my long life of journeys
- In the ripple that rolls on the water
- In the high rolling wave out at sea
- In the shadow that flies on the valley
- In the middle is where you'll find me
- In a foul tub of a boat
- My passage I did float
- Joined the ranks right on the docks of the city
- In the fire of the Devil's den
- With the gray-coated men
- I lost all my hope and my two brothers
- So I wandered in the West
- I settled down and did my best
- But my heart was unsteady and restless
- I took a room on Houseton Street
- Where the pawned poets would meet
- And we poured out the wine of the ages
- In the ripple that rolls on the water
- In the hard-hearted moon we both see
- In the shadow that falls in the alley
- In a riddle is where I will be
- Ten little fingers...
- Ten little toes...
- Sleep little baby...
- Will you ever know?
- Will you ever know?
- Years ago my lid was sealed
- They threw me down in the potter's field
- With the souls of the lost and forgotten
- And though my name is dead and gone
- I remain and I carry on
- And I roam with an old band of brothers
- And if you strum the ancient string
- You may call my spirit in
- Or if you blow on the whole of the whistle
- By an old highland air
- I may stop and listen there
- Or when the wren pulls her nest from the thistle
- In the ripple that rolls on the water
- In the high rollin' wave out at sea
- In the shadow that flies in the valley
- In a riddle is where you'll find me
- High above the cuillen moor
- Stands the ole' man of storr
- In the mist, the stone, and the mountain
- If you scramble up that scree
- Won't you stay a while for me
- And watch the white rollin' waves wash the island
- G*: G w/2nd string 3rd fret
- E|-----3-----
- B|-----3-----
- G|-----0-----
- D|-----0-----
- A|-----2------
- E|-----3------
- Am*: Just release 2nd & 3rd fingers from Am for one strum.
- E-----0-----
- B-----1-----
- G-----0-----
- D-----0-----
- A-----0-----
- E-----x-----