SONG TO THE SIREN (Tim Buckley)
David plays this amazing, moving song Capo 4. All chords relative. Check out the
amazing versions on Youtube and David’s own “A Thousand Miles Behind”.
G D
Long afloat on shipless oceans
G/C Em
I did all my best to smile
G D
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
G/C Em
Drew me loving to your isle
G
And you sang
F
Sail to me
Em
Sail to me
G
Let me enfold you
Em
Here I am
G
Here I am
D G/C
Waiting to hold you,
G D
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
G/C Em
Were you hare when i was fox?
G D
Now my foolish boat is leaning
G/C Em
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
G
For you sing,
F
"Touch me not,
Em
touch me not,
G
come back tomorrow
Em
O my heart,
G
O my heart
D G/C G
shies from the sorrow"
Instrumental break: verse chords
G D
I am puzzled as the newborn child
G/C Em
I am troubled at the tide
G D
Should I stand amid the breakers?
G/C Em
Should I lie with death my bride?
G
Hear me sing,
F
"Swim to me,
Em
Swim to me,
G
Let me enfold you
Em G D G/C G
Here I am, Here I am, Waiting to hold you"
TRANSCRIBED 05/2011 – EDWARD QUINN
