Tom Waits - Shiver me timbers
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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:
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Old captain Ahab
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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........
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from:
Johan Kristian Sveen
University of Oslo, Norway
Dept. of Mechanics
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Shiver Me Timbers (T.Waits)
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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 he ain't got Db7sus4nothing onDb7 me
So swallow me , follow me
I'm travelling alone
Blue waters my daughter
I'm gonna skip like a stone
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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
repeat chords as above
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the fogs liftin'......