Grand Funk Railroad - Closer To Home guitar tab
Closer To Home (I'm Your Captain)
Grand Funk Railroad
From the Album-"Closer To Home"
1970
Written by Mark Farner
Tabbed by Ray Scheidler
Intro (Play 4 Times)
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Riff 1 (Twice)
D5
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C5
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Main Riff Throughout (Play 4 Times)
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E--2---2---2---0---2---3----3---3---3----------
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G--2---2---2---2---2---2-----------------------
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D G D G D G D G
Everybody listen to me and return me my ship
D G D G
I'm your captain I'm your captain
D G D G D G D G
Though I'm feeling mighty sick
D G D G
I've been lost now days uncounted
D G D G
And it's months since I've seen home
D G D G
Can you hear me can you hear me
D G D G D G
Or am I all alone
D G D G
If you'll return me to my home port
D G D G
I will kiss you mother earth
D G D G
Take me back now take me back now
D G D G D G
To the port of my birth
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D Bb
Am I in my cabin dreaming
D Bb
Or are you really scheming
D Bb F A
To take my ship away from me
D Bb
You'd better think about it
D Bb
I just can't live without it
D Bb F A
So please don't take my ship from me yeah yeah
(Riff 1 Twice)
(Main Riff 4 Times)
D G D G
I can feel the hand of a stranger
D G D G
As it's tightening around my throat
D G D G
Heaven help me heaven help me
D G D G D G
Take this stranger from my boat
D G D G
I'm your captain I'm your captain
D G D G
Though I'm feeling mighty sick
D G D G
Everybody listen to me
D G D
And return me my ship
D G D G
I'm your captain yeah yeah yeah yeah
D G D G
I'm your captain yeah yeah yeah yeah
Interlude: D C D C
Outro Riff #2 (Play 3 Times)
D C
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D---------------0-------------------0-4---4-0---
A-0----0--4-------4---2--2--2-3-2-0-----------2-
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I'm getting closer to my home
(Then below)
D C D C C C C C
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D------0--4-------4---2--2----------------------
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I'm getting closer to my home
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E-----7--5--------------5--5-----7-----5--------
B-----------7--5-----7--------7-----7-----------
G--7--------------7-----------------------7-----
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C
E--5--3--------3--3--3---------5--3-------------
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Outro: Riff #2 Ad Nauseum
