C   D   C   D 

E                                   A
Better keep your distance from this whale
E                                 A 
Better keep your boat from going astray
                                       C#m 
Find yourself a partner and treat them well
E                                  A 
Try to give them shelter night and day 
                    G
'Cos here in this blue light 
E                   G
Far away from the fireside
E              G                     D 
Things can get twisted and crazy and crowded
                 E 
You can't even femel right 
 
{c:Chorus} 

{soc} 
                  C
So you dream of Columbus 
      D
Every time the panic starts 
               C
You dream of Columbus 
          D        
With your maps and your beautiful charts 
               E
You dream of Comlumbus 
                                   D
With an Gache in your travelling heart 

{eoc} 
A                                C#m
See how the cormorant swoops and dives 
E                              A
Must be some thrill to go that deep 
                             C#m
Down to the basement of this life 
E                                A
Down to where the mermaid gently sleeps 
                        G
Not like here in this blue light 
E                   G
Far away from the fireside 
E                    G                       D
Where things can get twisted and haunted and crowded 
                 E
You can't even femel alright 
 
{c:Chorus} 
       Em        D               
And as tide must ebb and flow 
     Am           Em
I am dragged down under 
      C                 D
And I wait the livelong day 
        Am        Em
For and end to my hunger 
                C
So I dream of Columbus 
      D
Every time that the panic starts 
             C
I dream of Columbus 
        D
With my maps and my beautiful charts 
             Em
I dream of Columbus 
            G                       D
And there's peace in a travelling heart 
             C
I dream of Columbus... 
 {c:Repeat C and D Chorus pattern}