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From: nailbndr@worm.hooked.net (Brian Gustafson) Subject: CRD:Robyn Hitchcock."The Ghost Ship" "The Ghost Ship" by Robyn Hitchcock (lyrics & chords)
TAhe Ghost Ship haunts the sea to sF#mtill come back and marry me theD rust is where her heart should be tonight A heDr face is where her fingers were tonight A
a Aglassy checkered engine room thF#me speechless silence of the tomb thDe manuscripts inside the womb unfurls_ A E A girl _
tDranslucent as a jelly fish that paAlpitates upon a dish she sDtings you with her gently fA7alling curl_ E
and sinDking in the waters green tonight_ A I wDonder where my love has been tonight_ A
---repeat chords The ghost ship changes course and on the deck there stands a horse who's munching on sardines and gorse and hay_ the captain draws a net across the bay_ The bubbles rising from the deep where dead men sing themselves to sleep from oak and coral they decieve to say_ okay_ you read my future like a chart see through my skin into my heart that flutters in my ribcage like a bird_
and the ghoDst ship sails on in to some ones life_ E ---repeat chords
The air from bottles forms into the skeletons of all the crew in white they dance against the blue and wail_ their curling bodys flail around the sail_ The figure head before the mast stares back into the golden past across the wrinkled sea so vast, forlorn_ she moans_ and flutters 'round me like a moth that beats against mosquito cloth and trys to eat her way into my dreams_ and sinking in the waters green tonight_ I wonder where my love has been tonight_ ---repeat chords The melons on the riverbank are bulging through decaying plank the beauty is so warm and dank and light_ the captain wears a headless grin tonight_ and sillhoutted on a blue the cook,the mate,the boseman too they know not why or what they do at all_ they fall_ like masonry in the abyss that opens every time we kiss I hear their laughter echoe 'round the bay_
and the ghosDt ship sails on into someones life_ E ---continue with A7,E and variations that trail off 'til the end.
Leave it to R.H. to write such a dreamy song. If anyone knows anymore Robyn, Please post them ! -- D.R.G.