[Chorus]
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Outside over there
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Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
[Verse 1]
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As mushrooms high as mountains
C Em
Came from neptunes submarines
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A little girl named Ida
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Lived in a shack up by the sea
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Her daddy was away at war
C Em
Her mother'd lost her mind
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So Ida in the arbour softly sang her lullaby
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To hush her baby sister and to calm her mother's shakes
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And by the waves a-crashing for her father she would wait
[Verse 2]
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One evening Ida sang her songs soft as May breeze blows
Em D C Em
When a blinding flash of light came her eyes began to close
Em D C Em
Devil's in their hooded cloaks through the window climbed
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They took her sister from her crib and ran off into the night
C C Em
When Ida looked to check the crib when finally she arose,
Em D C D Em
She saw a figure made of ice melting by the stove
[Chorus]
Em D
Outside over there
Em D
Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
[Verse 3]
Em D C Em
Ida put on her mother's coat and walked out to the cliffs,
Em D C Em
The sky was scarred with napalm the hills were drowned with mist
Em D C Em
She buried a rose in the ground and started up the road
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To find her sister in the night and safely bring her home
C C Em
There were soldiers in the twilight, thieves drinking by the caves
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She just listened out for her daddy's voice to come drifting across the waves
[Verse 4]
Em D C Em
On the edge of Neptune's kingdom there was a forest and it was said,
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That any man that went in there was never seen again,
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But Ida clutched her mother's coat and pressed on through the trees,
Em D C D Em
For in the ground she saw the tracks of wretched Devil's feet
C C Em
The path ahead grew fainter as the branches tied in knots
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And Ida felt like every step she took was being watched
[Chorus]
Em D
Outside over there
Em D
Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
[Verse 5]
Em D C Em
There deep among the wild wood the girl began to tire
Em D C Em
When she came across a cabin windows flickered with a fire
Em D C Em
She knocked upon the wooden door an old man showed his face
Em D C D Em
With kind eyes like her father's and a beard long and grey
C Em
She saw her sister sleeping near two angels wearing hoods
Em D C D Em
She had some supper then slept a while to dream about the woods.
Em D C Em
After three days passed the mist had cleared the sky was clear and bright,
Em D C Em
She took her sister in her arms and bid the man goodbye
Em D C Em
She ran back through the forest saw no soldiers nor no thieves,
Em D C D Em
Till she found herself back up at the shack by the sea
C Em
But when she flung her arms around her mother she shed tears
Em D C D Em
For the woman stood before her was blind and aged by thirty years
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She said "Oh my darling Ida, my wait is at an end,
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As this rose bush grew I prayed each day that we would meet again",
C Em
So they sat out in the evening and the sun shone all around
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Till early the next morning when their bodies were found.
[Chorus]
Em D
Outside over there
Em D
Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
