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Sunny sailor boy
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Thomas Reiter (mail goes via Stefan Schwabe!)
D A D F# A D (Dmaj tuning)
The dots mean: let these notes ring...ring...ring...
You can also tune DADGAD and use Thomas' chords. The finger
positions on the third string then have to shift down one fret.
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Sunny sailor boy
Here's the OOH-WAH-melodie as played in the beginning and in
the chorus:
D G Em A
---0...--------0-|-0...--------0-|-0-----|-0---0--
---0...--------0-|-0...--------0-|-0-----|-0---0--
---0...--------0-|-0...--------0-|-1-----|-7 8 7--
---0...--------0-|-4-5-4-5-5-4-4-|-2-----|-7---7--
---7-9-7-9-9-7-5-|-X...--------5-|-2-----|-7---7--
---0...--------0-|-5...--------5-|-2-----|-7---7--
And here's my way of playing the chords in the verse:
Bm A G F#m Em A
...day of days I stood...gazed over...sea !
On a day of days I stood and gazed
__over the western sea
Startled and struck, frightened to look
When a mermaid called to me__
Ooh-wah Ooh-wah-Ooh, __my sunny sailor boy__
Ooh-wah Ooh-wah-Ooh, __my sunny sailor boy__
Like a man in a dream, for an age it seemed
__I stood as still as a stone__
While the mermaid sang and her melody rang
Like a memory calling me home
(Chorus)
Then the sea and the wind and the shores did spin
__Though my resistance was strong
All the stars in space filled the mermaid's face
She captured my will with her song
(Chorus)
Somehow I spoke, the enchantment broke
I rubbed my eyes open wide
Lika a dream she was gone
What remained was a song borne on the ebbing tide
(Chorus)
