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 EAA07179 for <jamesb@nevada.edu>; Wed, 2 Mar 1994 04:34:12 -0800 Received: from sognsvann.ifi.uio.no by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.4/ifi2.4) id <NAA15710@ifi.uio.no> for <jamesb@nevada.edu> ; Wed, 2 Mar 1994 13:34:08 +0100 From: Johan Kristian Sveen <johans@ifi.uio.no> Received: from localhost by sognsvann.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 2 Mar 1994 13:34:07 +0100 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 13:34:06 +0100 To: jamesb@nevada.edu Subject: pub/guitar/w/Tom.Waits/ShiverMeTimbers.crd Message-ID: <MM.762611646.19916.sognsvann@ifi.uio.no> Here's Tom Waits' "shiver me timbers" from the album "the heart of saturday night" from 1974: chords used in this song: verse: ------ Gb Cb/Db Ebm7 Ab7 Abm9/Gb Db7 ______ x_x___ x_____ ______ xx____ x_____ |||||| |||||| 6th |*|*|* 4th *|||** 4th ||***| 4th |*|*|* *|||** |||||* ||||*| |||*|| |||||| |||||| |||*|| |||||| ||*||| |**||| |||||* ||*|*| |**||| |*|**| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| D7/Bb Gb/Cb Ab9 xxo___ x_____ __x___ ||||*| |||||| 4th*|||*| |||||* ||||** |||*|| |||*|| |||*|| |*|||* |**||| Shiver Me Timbers (T.Waits) ----------------- Gb Cb/Db I'm leaving my family

^Gbleaving all my ^Ebm7friends ^Gbmy body's at ^Ab7home Abm9/Gb Db7 but my hearts in the wind Gb Cb/Db where the clouds are like headlines on a ^Gbnew frontpage ^Ebm7sky my ^Gbtears are salt ^Ab7water Abm9/Gb Db7 Gb and 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 /Now the fog's lifting D7/Bb and the sand's shifting Gb/Cb Ab9 I'm drifting on out Old captain Ahab

he ain't got ^Db7sus4nothing on^Db7 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........ ------------ from: Johan Kristian Sveen University of Oslo, Norway Dept. of Mechanics

Tom Waits - Shiver me timbers