#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by post-office.nevada.edu (8.6.4/8.6.4) with ESMTP id GAA11311 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 1994 06:59:19 -0800 Received: from hymir.ifi.uio.no by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.4/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 15 Feb 1994 15:58:54 +0100 From: Johan Kristian Sveen Received: from localhost by hymir.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 15 Feb 1994 15:58:53 +0100 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 15:58:51 +0100 To: jamesb@nevada.edu Subject: Tom Waits: Shiver Me Timbers Message-ID: Here's Tom Waits' Shiver Me Timbers, from the 1978 release "The Ghosts of saturday night": chords used in this song: verse: ------ Gb (244322@1) Cb/Db Ebm7 (x3131x@4) Ab7 (xx1112@1) Abm9/Gb Db7______ (x4342x@1) x_x___ x_____ ______ xx____ x_____ |||||| |||||| 6th |*|*|* 4th *|||** 4th ||***| 4th |*|*|* *|||** |||||* ||||*| |||*|| |||||| |||||| |||*|| |||||| ||*||| |**||| |||||* ||*|*| |**||| |*|**| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| D7/Bb Gb/Cb Ab9 (x3434x@1) xxo___ x_____ __x___ ||||*| |||||| 4th*|||*| |||||* ||||** |||*|| |||*|| |||*|| |*|||* |**||| Shiver Me Timbers (T.Waits) ----------------- Gb (244322@1) Cb/Db I'm leaving my family Gb (244322@1) Ebm7leaving (x3131x@4)all my friends Gb (244322@1) Ab7my (xx1112@1)body's at home Abm9/Gb Db7but (x4342x@1)my hearts in the wind Gb (244322@1) Cb/Db where the clouds are like headlines Gb (244322@1) Ebm7 (x3131x@4)on a new frontpage sky Gb (244322@1) Ab7my (xx1112@1)tears are salt water Abm9/Gb Db7 (x4342x@1)Gband (244322@1)the moons full and 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 ----- Ebm7 (x3131x@4) /Now the fog's lifting D7/Bb and the sand's shifting Gb/Cb Ab9 (x3434x@1)I'm drifting on out Old captain Ahab Db7sus4 Db7 (x4342x@1)he ain't got nothing on 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 ------ /Now 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........ Some people play hard to get, I play hard to want Johan Kristian Sveen dept. of informatics University of Oslo Email: johans@ifi.uio.no Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have