Isabel BY Frank Turner from Poetry of The Deed

intro
e------|
b------|
g--4~--|
d--4~--|
a--2~--|
e------|

   B (Em) B (Em)
So now the years are rolling by, and it's not long since you and I

           G#m (133111@4)                  E (022100@1)Gb (244322@1)Bcould (x2444x@1)have been train drivers and astronauts

   B (Em) B (Em)
And now we're stuck in furnished ruts, but yet the thing that really cuts

           G#m (133111@4)              E (022100@1)Gb (244322@1)B(Em) (x2444x@1)is that we can't remember how we got caught

  B (Em)  B (Em)
Filtered air,computer screens, muffled sighs and might-have-beens -

           G#m (133111@4)                        E (022100@1)   Gb (244322@1)B(Em) (x2444x@1)count your blessings, then breathe, and count to ten

  B (Em)  B (Em)
And though it doesn't often show, we are scared because we know

           G#m (133111@4)                 E (022100@1)Gb (244322@1) G#mour (133111@4)forefathers were farmers and fishermen

G#m (133111@4)             Eb (x43121@3)              E (022100@1)        Gb (244322@1)  
            G#m (133111@4)      And so the world has changed, worse or better's hard to tell,

       Eb (x43121@3)         E (022100@1)           Gbbut (244322@1)my hope remains    within the arms of Isabel


   B (Em) B (Em)
So now our calloused hands once told a story honest as it's old

          G#m (133111@4)     E (022100@1)Gb (244322@1)  Bof (x2444x@1)sowing seeds and setting sail.

   B (Em) B (Em)
But now our hands are soft and weak and working seven days a week

            G#m (133111@4)                   E (022100@1)   Gb (244322@1)G#mat (133111@4)these salvation schemes that are bound to fail

back to chorus


   C#m (x13321@4)                          Bm (x24432@1)     Gb (244322@1)  And I'll admit that I am scared of what I don't understand.

C# (x43121@1)                              Bm (x24432@1)      Gb (244322@1)   But darling, if you're there, gentle voice and soothing hands

C# (x43121@1)                     Bm (x24432@1)  Gb (244322@1)                  
   Eb (x43121@3)                    E (022100@1)   to quiet my despair,    to shore up all my plans,      darling, if you're there...

G#m (133111@4)            Eb (x43121@3)               E (022100@1)   Gb (244322@1)       
        G#m (133111@4)     And so the world has changed,  and I must change as well

    Eb (x43121@3)                E (022100@1)       Gb (244322@1)           G#mThe (133111@4)machines we've made   will damn us into hell

        Eb (x43121@3)          E (022100@1)    Gb (244322@1)                   G#mAnd (133111@4)the time will come when all must save themselves.

       Eb (x43121@3)        E (022100@1)      GbI (244322@1)will save my soul in the arms of Isabel

outro  B (Em)  G#m  E  Gb