My Antonia

B                    E      B 
He said  Oh my love  Oh my Antonia 
B                          F# 
You with the dark eyes and palest of skin 
B                        E      B 
Tonight I am going from Santa Maria 
B                            F#        B 
Wait for me till I'm in your arms once again 
B                           E                 B 
She held me  she kissed me  begged me not to leave her 
B                           F# 
To cross on the mountain my fortune to win 
B                          E            B 
But a letter now tells me she died of a fever 
B                      F#         B 
I'll never see her in this world again 
F#                  B 
You are my sorrow   you are my splendor 
F#                          B 
You are my shelter through storm and through strife 
F#                     B         E 
You are the one I will always remember 
B           F#         B 
All off the days of my life 
B                         E           B 
I curse the ambition that took me far from her 
B                          F# 
For a treasure not ever so fine or so fair 
B                                E            B 
As the flash of her smile or the touch of her fingers 
B                           F#               B 
The fire in her heart and   the smell of her hair 
G#m                        F# 
She left me a note that cried  Do not weep for me 
E               B                       F# 
Behold you are with me as sure as the stars 
G#m                         E           B 
That rise in the evening to shine down upon me 
B                         F#      B 
Behold I am with you wherever you are 
B                        E          B 
I can still hear him he calls to me only 
B                            F# 
What once was begotten shall come to no end 
B                               E             B 
But the road is so long and the nights are so lonely 
B                           F#         B 
My soul just to hold him in this world again 
F#                B 
You are my sorrow you are my splendor 
F#                          B 
You are my shelter through storm and through strife 
F#                     B         E 
You are the one I will always remember 
B          F#         B 
All of the days of my life 
B           E      B 
Oh my love  Oh my Antonia 
B                          F# 
You with the dark eyes and palest of skin 
B                              E     B 
How could I know that night in Santa Maria 
B                    F#         B 
I'd never see you in this world again