Gentle Arms of Eden

Tracy Grammar & Dave Carter, 2002· Songs Well-Known in America · p.113

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(Intro) A G D ... A G D . . .G D G A

A G D A G D

On a sleepy endless ocean when the world lay in a dream

Then the day shone bright and rounder ‘til the one turned into two

Then all the sky was buzzing, and the ground was carpet green

Now there's smoke a-cross the harbor and there's factories on the shore

G D G D Em G

There was rhythm in the splash and roll but not a voice to sing

And the two in -to ten thousand things and old things into new

And the wary children of the woods went dancing in be-tween

And the world is ill with greed and will and enterprise of war

A G D A G D

So the moon fell on the breakers and the morning warmed the waves

And on some virgin beach head one lone-some critter crawled

And the people sang re-joicing when the fields were glad with grain

But I will lay my burdens in the cradle of your grace

G D G D Bm A

'Til a single cell did jump and hum for joy as though to say

And he looked a-bout and shouted out in his most astonished drawl

This song of cele - bration from their cities on the plain

And the shining beaches of your love and the sea of your em-brace

Chorus:

D G D

This is my home. This is my only home

G Bm A

This is the only sacred ground that I have ever known

D G D Bm

And should I stray, in the dark night alone

G D Bm G A D

Rock me Goddess in the gentle arms of Eden

(Repeat last chorus line on last chorus)