WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Williams Dar - The Ocean Chords | Ver. 1
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All of the chords here are pretty straightforward. G/F# is just your
usual G major with an F# in the bass (that's 2nd fret on the low E
string). Instead of specifying major and minor, I've used capital letters
for major and lower-case for minor.
On the album there's a lot of extra stuff - electic guitar, violin, bass,
drums. It does OK with just voice and acoustic guitar, though.
I wrote out the rhythm for the intro; for the rest you're on your own.
Intro:
G / G/F# / e / e / A / A / D / A / D / A /
G G/F# e
When I went to your town on the wide open shore,
A D G
Oh I must confess I was drawn, I was drawn to the ocean,
G/F# e A
I thought it spoke to me, it said, ³Look at us,
b G A b G
We're not churches, not schools, not skating ponds, swimming pools,
e
And we have lost people, haven¹t we though?²
A D
Oh, that's what the ocean can know of a body,
G A f#
And that's when I came back to town, this town is a song about you.
G A b G A b G A
You don't know how lucky you are, you don't know how much I adore you,
b G A e A D
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.
G G/F# e
I went back to the ocean today,
A D G
With my books and my papers I went to the rocks by the ocean,
G/F# e A
But the weather changed quickly, oh the ocean said,
b G A b
³What are you trying to find, I don¹t care, I¹m not kind,
G e
I¹ve bludgeouned your sailors, I¹ve spat out their keepsakes,
A D
Oh it¹s ashes to ashes, but always the ocean,²
G A f#
But the ocean can't come to this town, this town is a song about you.
G A b G A b G A
You don't know how lucky you are, you don't know how much I adore you,
b G A e A D
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.
Interlude: (La la)
G G/F# A b (4 times)
G e A D
G A f#
And the ones that can know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
G A b G A b G A
I have a good and I have an evil, I thought the ocean, the ocean thought
nothing,
b G e A D
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.
G G/F# e
I didn't go back today,
A D G
I wanted to show you that I was more land than water,
G/F# e A
I went to pick flowers. I brought them to you,
b G A b
Look at me, look at them, with their salt up the stem,
G e
But you frowned when I smiled and I tried to arrange them,
A D
You said, ³Let me tell you the song of this town,²
G A f#
You said, ³Everything closes at five. After that, well, you just got the bars,
G A b G
You don¹t know how precious you are,
A b G A
walking around with your little shoes dangling,
b G A e
I am the one who lives with the ocean,
A f#
It's where we came from, you know, and sometimes I just want to go back.
G A b G
After a day, we drink ¹til we¹re drowning,
A b G A
walk to the ocean, wade in with our workboots,
b G D
Wade in our workboots, try to finish the job.
G A b G A b G A
You don't know how precious you are, I am the one who lives with the ocean.
b G A b G A b e A D
You don't know how I am the one. You don't know how I am the one.²
Interlude: (La la)
G G/F# A b (22 times, fading out)
Enjoy,
Dave
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Dave Lorand
