Chet Bakers Unsung Swan Song

Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song - David Wilcox

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>From "Home Again".

Transcribed by John Kean.

Tuning: CGDGAD

Capo: partial (strings 1 to 5) at 5th fret

Timing: 4/4 with swing

INTRO: (trumpet solo)

4/4 , , , , , , , , , ,

||------5h7-|-7/9--------------------|-----------------------|

||-T--------|---------10\8-8------10-|-\7------0--6--6----9\-|

||-A--------|------------------------|--------0-0------------|

||-B--------|------------------------|-----------------------|

||----------|------------------------|-----------------------|

||----------|------------------------|-----------------------|

, , , , , , , ,

|----0h2h4--5h7----9-9----|-10---9-7-----5-4---2-------0--||

|-5-----------------------|------------------0---3-2p0----||

|-------------------------|----7--------------------------||

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VERSE 1:

C+2 C9

My old addiction

Change the wiring in my brain

So that when it turns the switches

Dm9 G6sus4

Then I am not the same

C+2 C9

So like the flowers toward the sun, I will follow

And stretch myself out thin

Like there's a part of me that's already buried

Dm9 G6sus4

It sends me out into this wind oh

VERSE 2:

My old addiction

Is a flood upon the land

This tiny lifeboat can keep me dry

But my weight is all that it can stand

So when I try to leave just a little

Just a splash to cool my feet

Ah that trickle turns out fickle

Fills my boat up five miles deep

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK:

C+2 C9

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

||-T-------------0--------0-|-----------0---------0---|

||-A-----------4---4------4-|-----------4-------0-----|

||-B---------5------------3-|-----------3-------------|

||--------------------------|-------------------------|

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

, , , , , , , ,

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

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

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

|----0------0-----2-----1-|-----1---------------0---|

|-------------------------|-------------------------|

|-5-----5-----5-----5-----|-5-----5-----5-----5-----|

, , , , , , , ,

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

|-0--h2-------0h2---------|-------0-----0-------0---|

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

|---------0-------------4-|--h5-------------------0-|

|-------------------------|-------------------------|

|-4-----4-----4-----0-----|-9-----------9-----9-----|

Dm9 G6sus4

, , , , , , , ,

|-----------5-----------5-|-----------5-------------||

|-------3-----------3-----|---------0---------------||

|-----4---4-------4-------|-------4-----------------||

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

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

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

VERSE 3:

My old addiction

Makes me crave only what is best

Like these just-this-morning songbirds

Craving upward from the nest

These tiny birds outside my window

Take my hand to be their Mom

These open mouths would trust and swallow

Anything that came along

VERSE 4:

Like my old addiction

Now the other side of day

As the springtime of my life's time

Turns the other way

If a swan can have a song

I think I know that tune

But the page is only scrawl

And I am gone this afternoon

CODA:

C+2 C9 F6 Fm6

But the page is only scrawl

Dm9 G6sus4 C+2

And I am gone this afternoon

CHORDS:

C+2 0x5400

C9 0x3400

F6 5x200x

Fm6 5x100x

Csus2/E 4x000x

Am9 9x0400

Dm9 x2x435

G6sus4 7x0405

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John Kean

(keanj@agresearch.cri.nz)

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