[Refrão]

F#       Em 
Outside over there 
F#                 Em 
Where the war was raging 
F#                Em     
Run little child far from home 
    D         Em         F#              
the lord will take you with him 


verse 1 

   F#                Em 
As mushrooms high as mountains 
          D               F# 
Came from neptunes submarines 
   F#                Em 
A little girl named Ida 
           D               F# 
Lived in a shack up by the sea 
    F#            Em 
Her daddy was away at war 
     D                 F# 
Her mother'd lost her mind 
   F#          Em            D    Em   F# 
So Ida in the arbour softly sang her lullaby 
D                              D                  F# 
To hush her baby sister and to calm her mother's shakes 
    F#              Em                D     Em        F# 
And by the waves a-crashing for her father she would wait 


verse 2 

F#                Em           D                   F#  
One evening Ida sang her songs soft as May breeze blows 
       F#                 Em              D           F# 
When a blinding flash of light came her eyes began to close 
F#                Em                D              F#    
Devil's in their hooded cloaks through the window climbed 
F#                     Em               D        Em      F# 
They took her sister from her crib and ran off into the night 
D                                        D            F# 
When Ida looked to check the crib when finally she arose, 
F#               Em           D       Em      F# 
She saw a figure made of ice melting by the stove 


[Refrão]

F#       Em 
Outside over there 
F#                 Em 
Where the war was raging 
F#                Em     
Run little child far from home 
    D         Em         F#              
the lord will take you with him 


verse 3 

F#                    Em           D                   F# 
Ida put on her mother's coat and walked out to the cliffs, 
     F#                   Em           D                    F#    
The sky was scarred with napalm the hills were drowned with mist 
F#                 Em                   D            F#   
She buried a rose in the ground and started up the road 
   F#              Em                D      Em        F# 
To find her sister in the night and safely bring her home 
            D                                 D               F# 
There were soldiers in the twilight, thieves drinking by the caves 
          D                   Em                     D        Em         F# 
She just listened out for her daddy's voice to come drifting across the waves 


verse 4 

F#                         Em                 D                 F# 
On the edge of Neptune's kingdom there was a forest and it was said, 
     F#            Em                D          F# 
That any man that went in there was never seen again, 
     F#              Em                D                      F# 
But Ida clutched her mother's coat and pressed on through the trees, 
      F#              Em                 D       Em       F# 
For in the ground she saw the tracks of wretched Devil's feet 
D                                   D                F# 
The path ahead grew fainter as the branches tied in knots 
    F#            Em              D       Em     F# 
And Ida felt like every step she took was being watched 


[Refrão]

F#       Em 
Outside over there 
F#                 Em 
Where the war was raging 
F#                Em     
Run little child far from home 
    D         Em         F#              
the lord will take you with him 


Verse 5 

F#                     Em          D              F# 
There deep among the wild wood the girl began to tire 
         F#            Em             D                F# 
When she came across a cabin windows flickered with a fire 
     F#               Em             D                  F# 
She knocked upon the wooden door an old man showed his face 
F#                      Em             D      Em       F#    
With kind eyes like her father's and a beard long and grey 
     D                                               F# 
She saw her sister sleeping near two angels wearing hoods 
   F#                     Em              D      Em       F# 
She had some supper then slept a while to dream about the woods. 

      F#                    Em                   D                  F# 
After three days passed the mist had cleared the sky was clear and bright, 
     F#                     Em      D              F# 
She took her sister in her arms and bid the man goodbye 
     F#                    Em           D               F# 
She ran back through the forest saw no soldiers nor no thieves, 
     F#                   Em           D      Em     F#   
Till she found herself back up at the shack by the sea 
        D                                               F# 
But when she flung her arms around her mother she shed tears 
        F#             Em                      D     Em      F#     
For the woman stood before her was blind and aged by thirty years 
          F#             Em       D            F#                  
She said "Oh my darling Ida, my wait is at an end, 
          F#              Em                  D         Em   F# 
As this rose bush grew I prayed each day that we would meet again", 
         D                                            F#  
So they sat out in the evening and the sun shone all around 
      F#             Em                 D      Em   F# 
Till early the next morning when their bodies were found. 


[Refrão]

F#       Em 
Outside over there 
F#                 Em 
Where the war was raging 
F#                Em     
Run little child far from home 
    D         Em         F#              
the lord will take you with him