Capo 2

D5                                          E5
Settling down with warm glow woodstove and kerosene

G5                                                               D5
Peace you're looking for Peace you'll find
                                                           Em

In the tangled mad cliffsides and crashing dark 
       G5
of Big Sur
       A5
of Big Sur

D5                                                       Em

Rapturous ring of silence Pacific fury
                             G5                                     D

Flashing on the rocks the sea shroud towers
                                                                               E5

The innocence of health and stillness in the wilds
      G5
of Big Sur
       A5
of Big Sur

                     E5                                                        G

This whole surface of the world as we know it now
              E5                                                                   G

Will be covered with the silt of a billion years in time 

Verse chords for interlude

D5                           E5
I see as much as doors will allow
                           G5                               A5

I?m a long way from the beat generation
D5                                                                           E5

Here comes the nightly moth to his nightly death
      
           G5
in Big Sur
           A5
in Big Sur

D5                                                        Em

The best thing to do is not to be false
                               G5                                                       A

The rocks of the valley have left no howl of complaint
D5                                                              E5   
 
I?m just a sick clown and so is everybody else
      
            G5
in Big Sur
            A5
in Big Sur

Verse Chords again, end on D5