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Sunny sailor boy
Turf
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Donald Heering (dheering@xs4all.nl)
DADGAD
"^" indicates an upstroke, "v" a downstroke and the "4s2p0" means:
play at fourth fret, then slide to the second fret and pull off.
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Sunny sailor boy
Here's how I play the chorus (ooh-wah part):
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^v^^^v ^^v^^^v
D ---x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--0--------0-------
A ---x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--0--------0-------
G ---x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--0--------6-------
D ---2--4--2--4--2--0--4--5--4--5--5--4--0--2--------7-------
A ---0--0--0--0--0--0--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--2--------7-------
D ---0--0--0--0--0--0--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--2--------7-------
And this is what I play during the verses:
D ---0---0---0-----0---------0---0----------------
A ---0---0---0-----0---------0---0----------------
G ---4---2---0--2--2---------0---6----------------
D ---5---4---2-----4---------2---7----------------
A ---5---4---2-----0---------2---7----------------
D ---5---4---2-----0--4s2p0--2---7----------------
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)