Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 17:47:44 +0200
From: Dagmar Klein
Completely from memory, as the only keyboard I have here is the one on
my computer, but I've played this one so many times (with amazing
effect on an audience use to my songs ? that I think I can add to Bill's
version what I consider to be the right chords...
Dagmar 41
Your Tall Ship
C G F G
Far, so far away, surely you remember
C G
log book pages frayed
Am D G
that fanned the flames of long ago -
C G
guttered in the grate:
F G
shadows in the embers...
G F G/b C
look away, look for home.
Voices ...
G F G/b C
...sail away, sail for home,
G F G/b C
look away, look for home.
C Em Am Em
Land-locked lovers, landlub friends, in procession:
Am F G C
all rites of passage have an end,
C F
look away, sail away,
C F Am G C
sail your tall ship home.
We are...
...look for home.
Look away in the Roaring Forties...
(This is an improvised tune over the alternating chords of F and C.
Simple really.)
C Em Am
Land-locked lovers, littoral friends,
Am Em Am
the succession never ends...
Am Em Am
the spirit's willing to carry on;
Am F G C
all rites of passage make us strong.
C
Sail away,
F
sail away,
C F Am G C
Sail your tall