Shiver Me Timbers

Here's Tom Waits' "shiver me timbers" from the album "the heart of saturday

night" from 1974:

chords used in this song:

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Shiver Me Timbers (T.Waits)

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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

my tears are salt water

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

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/Now the fog's lifting

and the sand's shifting

I'm drifting on out

Old captain Ahab

Db7sus4 Db7

he ain't got nothing on 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

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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

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/Now the fogs liftin'......

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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........

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from:

Johan Kristian Sveen

University of Oslo, Norway

Dept. of Mechanics