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Tuning: G C E A
Here's Tom Waits' "shiver me timbers" from the album "the heart of saturday night" from 1974: chords used in this song: verse: ------
__Gb____ Cb/Dbx_x___ xEbm7_____ __Ab7____ Abm9/Gbxx____ x_Db7____ |||||| |||||| 6th |*|*|* 4th *|||** 4th ||***| 4th |*|*|* *|||** |||||* ||||*| |||*|| |||||| |||||| |||*|| |||||| ||*||| |**||| |||||* ||*|*| |**||| |*|**| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||
xD7/Bbxo___ xGb/Cb_____ __Ab9x___ ||||*| |||||| 4th*|||*| |||||* ||||** |||*|| |||*|| |||*|| |*|||* |**|||
Shiver Me Timbers (T.Waits) -----------------
GbI'm leaving my Cb/Dbfamily Gbleaving all my Ebm7friends Gbmy body's at Ab7home but my Abm9/Gbhearts in the Db7wind where the Gbclouds are like Cb/Dbheadlines on a Gbnew frontpage Ebm7sky my Gbtears are salt Ab7water and tAbm9/Gbhe moons Db7full Gband high
And I know Martin Eden's gonna be proud of me many before me has been drawn by the sea To be up in the crow's nest singing my say Shiver me Timbers as I'm sailing away

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the Ebm7fog's lifting and the D7/Bbsand's shifting I'm Gb/Cbdrifting on Ab9out
Old captain Ahab
he ain't got Db7sus4nothing onDb7 me

repeat chords as above

So swallow me , follow me I'm travelling alone Blue waters my daughter I'm gonna skip like a stone --------- so please call my misses tell her not to cry 'cause my googbye is written by the moon in the sky Nobody knows me I can't fathom my stayin' shiver me timbers as I'm sailing away

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the fogs liftin'......
------ I'm leaving my family leaving all my friends my body's at home but my hearts in the wind where the clouds are like headlines on a new frontpage sky shiver me timbers as I'm sailing goodbye........ ------------ from: Johan Kristian Sveen University of Oslo, Norway Dept. of Mechanics