Tonart: C minor•
Intro 1
Cm
G
Cm
Eb
Fm
Cm
Verse 1
Cm
The wind was whipping
G
shingle through the windows in the town
A hail of stones across the roof,
Cm
the slates came raining down
A blade of light upon the spit came
Fm
sweeping through the roar
G
With me head in side a barrel and
Verse 2
me leg screwed in the floor
Cm
Mother pack me bags because
G
I'm off to foreign parts
Don't ask me where I'm going 'cause
Fm
Cm
Fm
Cm
I'm sure it's off the charts
I'll pin your likeness on the wall
Fm
right by my sleeping head
G
I'll send you cards and letters so
you'll know that I'm not dead
Verse 3
Cm
By this time in a week I should
Trailing fingers through the phospor or
Cm
asleep in flowers of foam
From Macao to Acapulco from
G
We'll see monoliths and bridges
and the Christ up on the hill
Verse 4
G
Cm
An aria with the Russians at
With ice floes through the window
Cm
we raised glasses to the Czar
We squared off on a dockside with
Fm
a couple a hundred Finns
G
We dallied in the 'dilly and we
soaked ourselves in gin
Verse 5
Fm
Cm
Now the only deck that I'd want to walk
Fm
Cm
And the only sea I want to sail
the scented dusk
Where a kid grow's full of sadness
Let's all go drifting out into the even
Cm
G
Cm
ing sun
Interlude 1
Cm
Fm
Bb
G
Cm
Verse 6
Cm
We sailed through constellations
G
and were rutted by the storm
I crumpled under cudgel blows
Cm
and finally came ashore
I spent the next two years or more
Fm
just staring at the wall
G
We went to sea to see the world
and what d'you think we saw?
Verse 7
Cm
If we turned the table upside down
G
and sailed around the bed
Clamped knives between our teeth and
Cm
tied bandannas round our heads
With the wainscot our horizon and
Fm
the ceiling as the sky
G
You'd not expect that anyone
would go and fuckin' die
Verse 8
Fm
Cm
Now the only deck that I'd want to walk
Fm
Cm
And the only sea I want to sail
G
Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk
Where a kid grow's full of sadness
Let us all go drifting out into
Cm
G
Cm
the evening sun
Verse 9
Cm
At nights we passed the bottle round
G
and drank to our lost friends
We lay alone upon our bunks
Cm
and prayed that this would end
A wall of moving shadows with
Fm
rows of swinging keys
G
We dreamed that whole Leviathans
lay rotting in the weeds
Verse 10
Cm
There's a sound that comes from miles
G
away if you lean your head to hear
A ship's bell rings on board a wreck
Cm
when the air is still and clear
And up above that means another
Fm
angel's got his wings
G
But all below it signifies is
a ship's gone in the drink
Verse 11
Fm
Cm
Now the only deck that I'd want to walk
Fm
Cm
And the only sea I want to sail
the scented dusk
Where a kid grow's full of sadness
Cm
G
Cm
Let us all go drifting out into the evening sun
Outro 1
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Eb
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Cm
Eb
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Ab
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Fm
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