Starsailor

Come Here Woman
I Woke Up
Monterey
Song to the Siren
Jungle Fire
Starsailor
The Healing Festival
Down by the Borderline


Come Here Woman
 
Tuning: EADEBE
Intro: C5 (18 sec.) F5

F5     F#5   G5  E5 F5                F5  F#5 G5  E5   F5         C#5 
 C5
You caught me staring           So gently you tease me and turn away

F5  F#5 G5   E5                      F5     F#5  5  E5 F5             
     C5
Unlike the young ones    your movements you sa---vor     Like a tango

         C#maj7      Dmaj7   C#5  C5
My hideaways are longing for you

F5   F#5   G5  E5  F5                F5  F#5  G5   E5   F5
You sly----ly con--jure     these moments surrounding

                    C5                C#maj7                     
Dmaj7        C#5   C5
Keep me tonight all your practiced ways    you secretly       entice 
me


Cm
Come here woman

Cm7
Like an old window oh I need a little shade

Like an old tomcat Lord I love to parade

Like a broken old man Lord I need sun

Ah, I need you darlin' 'cause I just ain't done  I need you darlin' 
'cause I just ain't done

Woman I'm just not done

While wheel waters set now my blood yearns your mouth opens Woman

G5    Bb5                       A5                            F5  C#5
      Give me broken lies when you don't feel pain  Let me smell your 
thighs mama

C5
Let me drink down a little rain man

C#maj7                         E5                           F5        
           F#5                   C5
While we're drifting cold   out beyond the seas  we wither time into 
a coil of fear

F5 = 133111      F#5 = 244222     G5 = 355333       E5 = 022000      
C#5 = x4x42x    C5 = x3x31x     
C#maj7 = x4x111     Dmaj7 = x5x222     Bb5 = 688666     A5 = 577555   
 Cm = x35343  Cm7 = x35643
e---1------2------3---0-----1------------------
b---1------2------3---0-----1------------------
e---1------2------3---0-----1------------------
D---3------4------5---2-----3-----------------
A---3------4------5---2-----3----------------
E---1------2------3---0-----1-----------------
You caught me staring....


Tabbed by Adrie Meijer, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

 


I Woke Up
Cmaj7                                  Bb          A              Ab
Now the sun sits on my hand, O where are you

                          Bb                                          
           Db
Walking the wind I fly above the shore of the town

              Ab
To the hills where I can hear

            Cmaj7
The harbor bells ring slavery

                        Am
Where the fortune teller sighs to me

                                                         Bb
O I see your woman in the raw ride

                      A             Ab                  Cmaj7   Ab    
Cmaj7
A mare of stone and howl

Cmaj7                                     Bb          A               
 Ab
I woke up while morning built the world with light

                           Bb
Crossing their hearts

                                                            Db        
           Ab
twelve sailor boys all stood in a ring round our bed

                                   Cmaj7     
Out of  the grass a dancer rose shivering

                Am
Oh the sailors pointing out to sea

                                                             Bb       
               A             Ab
and the dancer diving up the sky  sang   'til we forgot the day


Cmaj7 = x32000   Bb = x13331    A = x02220   Ab = 466544     Db = 
x46664    Am = x02210

 


Monterey
Capo 3rd fret

Riff:  D Am  D  Am  D  Am  D  Am  Am7/D

F            F#o    C-5          C#  C   C#  C   B  Am
Under a loop of stars in the vulgar co .........ld

(Riff)
The dead airport lay

Am        D          F          Am
By the pebbles of the highway

                        Am7/D
Through the snail clouds

(Riff)
You soared to your lover

(Riff)
I hurried away my darling

(Riff)                                      Am7/D
With a howl in my throat

F          F#o          C-5
Hiding inside the weeds

         C#  C   C#  C  B  Am
In the orange gro............ve

(Riff)
The black rooster crowed

Am             D         F           Am
Through the hollow of the midnight

                  Am7/D
With my shot blood

With stains on my fingers

(Riff)
I run with the damned my darling

(Riff)
They have taught me to laugh 

(Riff)
to laugh

(Riff)
to laugh

D = xx0232         Am = x02210      Am7/D = x00553       F = xx321x   
      F#o = xx421x 
C-5 = x3455x      C# = x43x2x        C = x32x1x           B = x21x0x  

 


Moulin Rouge
 
Intro: F / Fsus4 (x4)

F             Fsus4
"Comme la chanson est belle"
Bb         F
Chantez la Mademoiselle
Ab              F
Dansant dans le Moulin Rouge 

F          Fsus4
"Love is a leap" she sighed
Bb            F
"Someday I'll be your bride,
Ab               F
When I leave the Moulin Rouge"

Bb              Bbm
Je vais marier ma fille de danse
Ab          F
Et habiter en France 

F             Fsus4
"Comme la chanson est belle"
Bb         F
Chantez la Mademoiselle
Ab              F
Dansant dans le Moulin Rouge
Ab              F
Dansant dans le Moulin Rouge
Ab              F
Dansant dans le Moulin Rouge 

F / Fsus4 / (x4)

(chords for 2nd part same as first)

"Oh la la la" she sang
Spinning till midnight swang,
Dancing in the Moulin Rouge 

I love her love I do,
All of her children too,
Oh I thank you, Moulin Rouge!

Je vais marier ma fille de danse
Et habiter en France 

"Comme la chanson est belle"
Chantez la Mademoiselle
Dansant dans le Moulin Rouge
Dansant dans le Moulin Rouge 
Dansant dans le Moulin Rouge 

Outro: F / Fsus4 / (repeat to fade)

****
transcribed by Dann Butterfield

 


Song to the Siren
 
Verse 1:

Bb          F        
Long afloat on shipless oceans
Eb          Gm
I did all my best to smile
Bb                F
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Eb          Gm
Drew me loving to your isle
Bb        Ab
And you sang
        Eb
Sail to me, sail to me
Bb
Let me enfold you
Gm
Here I am 
        F
Here I am
           Eb   Gm
Waiting to hold you 

Verse 2:

Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning 
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow" 

Verse 3:

I am puzzled as the newborn child
I'm as riddled at the tide
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or should I lie with Death my bride?
Hear me sing, "Swim to me, Swim to me, Let me enfold you:
Here I am, Here I am, Waiting to hold you" 

***
With a capo at the third fret, you can play
G D C Em
G F C G
Em D C Em

********
by Dann Butterfield

 


Jungle Fire
 
Capo 1st fret

Dm                      Bm              Fm
Somewhere old memories echoed from the street

        A
in a crying hole

Bm7 (addE)
Just a song from long ago

               Bm9/E                                  Fm6
when I lost my easy gods to the Harlem insect laws

                  G       Gb                   Eb           D*
I heard your baited moans and the passing cars

                  G      Gb               Eb                  D*
and the swirling songs and the black man's bones

                   G              Gb                     Eb        D*
through the walls and the stalls and the cackling calls

               E5
you were there

                 Am   D             E
You were an island behind the sun

          Am  D                   E
Yes an island where my love could live

           Am                  D        E             G
And life breathes from deep inside
                       E
i...i..i...i...i...inside

(Riff) E11
Mama Lie

I love you like a jungle fire

Riff: 
------------------------0-----------------------
--0------0--3--0--3--------------------------
------2----------------------------------------
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------------------------------------------------

Dm =  xxx765       Bm =  xxx777       Fm = 133111      A = x02220     
    Bm7(addE) = x20230 
Bm9/E = x2242x   Fm6 = xx0111    G = 355433        Gb = 244322        
 Eb = x6504x  
 D* = x54x3x       E5 = 022400       Am = x02210      D = xx0232    E 
= 022100    E11 = 022232

 


Starsailor
 
sorry...unavailable

 


The Healing Festival
 
This song is based on one, repeated riff:

-----------------1----1---------------1---------1------------------------
-----------------3----3---------------3---------3-----------------------
-----------------2----2---------------2---------2-----------------------
-----------------0----0--------------0----------0----------------------
--1--2--3--0------------------0----------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Dm
Black tan brown and white

Repeat the order of nature

And we've tried all the lovely little steps

That hope to turn the eyes and footsteps of you

Friend to lend for once

Behold that healing festival

Complete for an instant
                                                   Dm7 (xx0211)
The dance figure pure constellation   

 


Down by the Borderline
 
sorry...unavailable

 


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