Waiting For The Moon

WAITING FOR THE MOON - Bruce Cockburn 1983 "Trouble With Normal

This transcription is not in retail transcription books.

Transcribed by Stephen Cody, Vancouver, August 1994.

DEFs:

E: 033200

A: 577600

B: 799800

F#m: 244200

G#m: 466400

C#m: 046630

CHART:

run1 F#m run2 F#m run2 E

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E E run1 F#m F#m F#m

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leather.....wall kids.......ball

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land here land there, Quick.... spots... grow...

F#m run2 F#m run2 F#m E

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ohhh... waiting.....

run1:

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|----2-2---2-2----2---4---|

|----2-2---2-2----2---4---|

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|_| |_| | ring

pinch-----

run2: (chorus)

F#m G#m F#m E F#m - ring

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|------2--4----2--1---2--------|

|------4--6----4--2---4--------|

|------x--x----x--x---4--------|

|---------------------2--------|

|__| |__|

wait-ing for the moon

F#m G#m F#m E F#m - ring

/ / / /

|---------------------0------0--|--0----

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|------2--4----2--1---2------2--|--1----

|------4--6----4--2---4------4--|--2----

|------x--x----x--x---4------4--|--2----

|---------------------2------2--|--0----

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wait-ing for the moon to show

LYRICS: this song is about an impending American gun boat invasion

as tourists watch from the shoreline of a Central American beach.

Body lies fluid in the static heat

Thoughts buzzing like flies around the meat

Land here Land there Quick circles in the air

I'm riding smooth

But just a little slow

Waiting for the moon

Waiting for the moon to show

Leather faced old man by the cafe wall

Kids in the surf, splashing with a soccer ball

Gaze thru Curved lense

Trying to identify the sky's end

Little spots on the horizon

Into gunboats grow [to chorus]

Might be a party, might be a war

6 lines more (you've seen 95%)

When those faceless soldiers come ashore

Speculation ends in wasted time

May as well go, and have a glass of wine

Cause whatever's comin'

There's no place else to go [to chorus]^Z