Manders Mark David - Coast Of Madagascar guitar tab

Coast of Madagascar

by Mark David Manders and Neuvo Tejas

from the album "Tales from the Couch Circuit"

Transcribed by Thomas Faulkenberry

A D A

Tucked away in a cardboard box behind the attic door

E

My chance to find a book of rhymes from a hundred years before

A D A

Tales I read came to life like a sail in the breeze

E A

Lord Byron was my captain, and his pages were my seas

(chorus)

D E A

And we'd sail across the water

D E A

On the trade winds of time

D E A F#m

And off the coast of Madagascar

E A

We'd leave our misfortunes behind

There was something about a princess held captive by her foes

There was something in his verses that would not let me go

And as stately galliants poised to fight, sails stretching at the seams

I'd fall asleep in the light and drift off to dream

(repeat chorus)

My life is like a cardboard box filled with memories and rhymes

I've lost track of the book I had but I can still recall his lines

Lookin' back I have to smile as I let my pen run free

For I was much too young to fathom the course he'd set for me

(repeat chorus 2x)