• Song:

    Song To The Siren

  • Artist:

    David Gray

SONG TO THE SIREN (Tim Buckley)
David plays this amazing, moving song Capo 4.  All chords relative. Check out the 
amazing versions on Youtube and David's own "A Thousand Miles Behind".

G (320003@1)                 D (xx0232@1)      
Long afloat on shipless oceans
G/C (2431xx@7)                     EmI (022000@1)did all my best to smile
G (320003@1)                         D'Til (xx0232@1)your singing eyes and fingers
G/C (2431xx@7)             Em (022000@1)Drew me loving to your isle
G (320003@1)And you sang
FSail (133211@1)to me
EmSail (022000@1)to me
             GLet (320003@1)me enfold you
EmHere (022000@1)I am
G (320003@1)         
Here I am
              D (xx0232@1)            G/CWaiting (2431xx@7)to hold you,

G (320003@1)                          DDid (xx0232@1)I dream you dreamed about me?
G/C (2431xx@7)                 EmWere (022000@1)you hare when i was fox?
G (320003@1)                             DNow (xx0232@1)my foolish boat is leaning 
G/C (2431xx@7)                        EmBroken (022000@1)lovelorn on your rocks,
G (320003@1)                   
For you sing,
F"Touch (133211@1)me not, 
Emtouch (022000@1)me not, 
Gcome (320003@1)back tomorrow
Em (022000@1)             
O my heart, 
GO (320003@1)my heart 
D (xx0232@1)                   G/C (2431xx@7)        Gshies (320003@1)from the sorrow"

Instrumental break: verse chords

G (320003@1)                 DI (xx0232@1)am puzzled as the newborn child
G/C (2431xx@7)              EmI (022000@1)am troubled at the tide
G (320003@1)                       DShould (xx0232@1)I stand amid the breakers?
G/C (2431xx@7)                   EmShould (022000@1)I lie with death my bride?
G (320003@1)                                                                            
Hear me sing,  
F"Swim (133211@1)to me, 
EmSwim (022000@1)to me, 
GLet (320003@1)me enfold you

Em (022000@1)            G (320003@1)            D (xx0232@1)                      G/C (2431xx@7)             GHere (320003@1)I am, Here I am, Waiting to hold you"

TRANSCRIBED 05/2011 - EDWARD QUINN 

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