I Remember / Ship Song (Boo Hewerdine) --------------------------------------
This is on Boo Hewerdine's second album, Ignorance. It's in Ab (capo at 1), but the following is written as though it's in G at the nut.
The bit between ^^^^^^^ and vvvvvvvvv is "The Ship Song" written by Nick Cave. The rest is written by Boo Hewerdine.
[Intro]:
G D C GD x 2
I remember the yellow room
A face I've never seen since
A picture on the far wall
My hands on the bars
And I remember asking about ugliness
and I remember the sky was broken
and I remember rain
on the other side of the road
and I remember the colour was wrong
and I remember a dream about darkness
and I remember the sound of birds
and I remember careless talk and I remember blood and I remember an imagined place, running, laughing
and I remember a white cat with no tail
I remember the letter I gave to her husband
and I remember a terrible secret
and I remember jumping from the 14th step
and I remember pink ribbon in grey hair
and I remember 7:30 1969
and I remember standing in the hall
with strangers
and I remember leaving
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down we make a little history, baby, every time you come around Let loose your dogs upon me and let your hair hang down You are a mystery to me, every time you come around.
Your face has fallen saddened now, you know that the time is right
for me to let go your wings **
and you, you must learn to fly
repeat "come sail your ships . . ." vvvvvvvvvvvvvv
I personally think that the third line of the bridge in the Ship Song (**, above) sounds better played the same as the first two lines (i.e. Am, Em, C), but that doesn't seem to be what's going on on the CD.
