[Verse 1]
               [E]
September seventeen
                      [A]
To a girl I know it's mothers day
                 [E]
Her son has gone alee
                         [B]
And that's where he will stay
                   [E]
Wind on the weathervane
                  [A]
Tearing blue eyes sailor mean
                    [E]
As Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain
[D]                      [E]
For a boy on Fiddler's Green
 
[Verse 2]
                 [E]
His tiny knotted heart
                      [A]
Well I guess it never worked too good 
                 [E]
The timber tore apart
                         [B]
And the water gorged the wood
                           [E]
You can hear her whispered prayer
                       [A]
For men at masts that always lean
                             [E]
The same wind that moves her hair
[D]                               [E]
Moves her boy through Fiddler's Green
 
[Bridge]
    [B]                    [A]
Oh, nothing's changed anyway
    [B]                    [A]
Oh, nothing's changed anyway
    [B]       [E]
Anytime today
 
[Verse 3]
                  [E]
He doesn't know a soul 
                              [A]
And there's nowhere that he's really been
                     [E]
But he won't travel long alone
                    [B]
No not on Fiddler's Green
                         [E]
Balloons all filled with rain
                        [A]
As children's eyes turn sleepy mean
                        [E]
And Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain
[D]                      [E]
For a boy on Fiddler's Green