• Song:

    Calypso

  • Artist:

    John Denver

  • Album:

    A Song's Best Friend: T...

Calypso

John Denver

A (x02220@1)                               A6To (x04xxx@1)sail on a dream, on a crystal blue ocean,
        A7 (x02020@1)                            A (x02220@1)               Bm/A (x04440@1)  
To ride on the crest of a wild raging storm,
         A (x02220@1)                             A6 (x04xxx@1)             
To work in the service of life and the living,
          A7 (x02020@1)                 A (x02220@1)                            Bm/AIn (x04440@1)search of the answers to questions unknown --
              A (x02220@1)                                     A6To (x04xxx@1)be part of the movement and part of the growing,
Amaj7 (x02120@1)             A (x02220@1)                Em7/APart (00x030@1)of the beginning to understand --

D (xx0232@1)                             A (x02220@1)    
Aye, Calypso, the places you've been to
            D (xx0232@1)                         A (x02220@1)                 E (022100@1)              AThe (x02220@1)things that you've shown us, the stories you tell!
   D (xx0232@1)                     A (x02220@1)     
Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit
           D (xx0232@1)                     A (x02220@1)                 E7 (020130@1)             AThe (x02220@1)men who have served you so long and so well

E (022100@1)             D (xx0232@1)     AHi (x02220@1)- dee-- ay -- ee -- ooo
              E (022100@1)             D (xx0232@1)              A (x02220@1)       E (022100@1)        D (xx0232@1)   ADo-dle-oh-ooo (x02220@1)do do do do do do-dle ay-ee
              E (022100@1)        Dsus4 (xx0233@1)    D (xx0232@1)  A(add B)    A (x02220@1)  D/A (x00232@1)  A(add B)   D/ADo-dle-ay-ee (x00232@1)
A (x02220@1)                                   A7Like (x02020@1)the dolphins to guide you, you bring us beside you
       A7 (x02020@1)                                     A (x02220@1)             Bm/ATo (x04440@1)light up the darkness and show us the way
           A (x02220@1)                                     A6For (x04xxx@1)though we are strangers in your silent world,
    Amaj7 (x02120@1)         A (x02220@1)                                     Bm/ATo (x04440@1)live on the land we must learn from the sea
             A (x02220@1)                         A6To (x04xxx@1)be true as the tide and free as a wind swell
Amaj7 (x02120@1)         A (x02220@1)                   Em7/AJoyful (00x030@1)and loving and letting it be

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