The Storms Are on the Ocean – Carter Family acoustic guitar, harmonica & vocal cover by Jack Strraw

A.P. Carter, Maybelle Carter, Sara Carter copyrighted this back in November of 1927 after having recorded it at the Bristol Session on August 1 of that year. The recorded it again for Columbia in 1935. The changed the key to D major instead of B when they recorded it in Bristol.

My version is derived from listening to both recordings but I do it in D# although my harmonica says E♭. Go figure... Why D#? Why not! Or maybe for the same reason they put it in D instead of B. We are talking major keys here if you didn't get that.

Lovely tune. Love playing it!

Lyrics:
I'm going away to leave you love
I'm going away for a while
But I'll return to see you sometime
If I go ten thousand miles

Chorus
The storms are on the ocean
The heavens may cease to be
This world may lose its motion love
If I prove false to thee

Oh who will dress your pretty little feet
And who will glove your hand
Oh who will kiss your rosy red cheeks
When I'm in a foreign land

Papa will dress my pretty little feet
And Mama will glove my hand
You may kiss my rosy red cheeks
When you return again

Have you seen those mournful doves
Flying from pine to pine
A-mourning for their own true love
Just like I mourn for mine

I'll never go back on the ocean love
I'll never go back on the sea
I'll never go back on my blue-eyed girl
Till she goes back to me

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