Tom Waits

Tom Waits - Shiver Me Timbers guitar tab

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Subject: Tom Waits: Shiver Me Timbers

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Here's Tom Waits' Shiver Me Timbers, from the

1978 release "The Ghosts of saturday night":

chords used in this song:

verse:

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Gb Cb/Db Ebm7 Ab7 Abm9/Gb Db7

______ x_x___ x_____ ______ xx____ x_____

|||||| |||||| 6th |*|*|* 4th *|||** 4th ||***| 4th |*|*|*

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|||*|| |||||| ||*||| |**||| |||||* ||*|*|

|**||| |*|**| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||

D7/Bb Gb/Cb Ab9

xxo___ x_____ __x___

||||*| |||||| 4th*|||*|

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Shiver Me Timbers (T.Waits)

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Gb Cb/Db

I'm leaving my family

Gb Ebm7

leaving all my friends

Gb Ab7

my body's at home

Abm9/Gb Db7

but my hearts in the wind

Gb Cb/Db

where the clouds are like headlines

Gb Ebm7

on a new frontpage sky

Gb Ab7

my tears are salt water

Abm9/Gb Db7 Gb

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

----- Ebm7

/Now the fog's lifting

D7/Bb

and the sand's shifting

Gb/Cb Ab9

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........

Some people play hard to get, I play hard to want

Johan Kristian Sveen

dept. of informatics

University of Oslo

Email: johans@ifi.uio.no

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