Intro: || G/D C/G | G/D G | G/D C/G | % ||
|| G/D C/G | G/D G | G/D C/G | G/D G ||
V: || G/D C | G/D G :||x3 | G/D C | G/D / G G/B |
P-C: || Am G G/B / | % | Am G | D G/B Am G D/F# | C/G ||
||: Bb Am G / C :||x4 | Bb Am G / |
Ch: || G / / C | G / / D | G / / C | G / G/B Cm G |
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[VERSE 1]
|G/D C |G/D G
A family of musicians took shelter for the night
|G C |G/D G |
In the little harbor church of St. Cecilia
C |G/D G |
Two guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine
C |G/D G G/B |
Rose of Jericho and Bougainvillea
[Pre-Chorus]
Am G G/B | Am G G/B | Am G |
This is a lone---ly life
D G/B Am G D/F#|C/G |
Sorrows everywhere you turn
|Bb Am G C |
And that's worth something when you think about it
Bb Am G C |
That's worth some money
|Bb Am G C |
And that's worth something when you think about it
Bb Am G C |Bb Am G
That's worth some money
[VERSE 2]
|G/D C |G/D G |
A trip to the market, a trip into the pearl gray morning sunlight
C |G/D G |
That settles over Washington
C |G/D G
A trip to the market, a trip around the world
| C |G/D G
Where the evening meal is negotiable, if there is one.
[PRE-CHORUS]
G/B |Am G G/B| Am G G/B | Am G |
This is a lonely-lone, lonely life
D G/B Am G D/F#|C/G |
Sorrows everywhere you turn
|Bb Am G C |
And that's worth something when you think about it
Bb Am G C |
That's worth some money
|Bb Am G C |
And that's worth something when you think about it
Bb Am G C |Bb Am G | C | G | C |G G/B Am|
That's worth some money
[CHORUS]
G C |G D |
To prove that I love you, Because I believe in you
G C |G G/B Am G|
Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast
G C |G D |
If I have money If I have children
G C |G G/B Am G|
Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast
G C |G D |
Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah
G C |G G/B Am G|
Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast
N.C | % | G C | G | C |
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[VERSE 3]
G | C |G/D G
We are standing in the sunlight, the early morning sunlight
| C |
In the harbor church of Saint Cecilia
G/D G C |G/D G
To praise a soul's returning to the earth
| C |G/D G G/B |
To the Rose of Jericho and the Bougainvillea
[PRE-CHORUS]
Am G G/B |Am G G/B |Am G | C | % | %
This is the on-----ly life
|Bb Am G C |
And that's worth something when you think about it
Bb Am G C |
That's worth some money
|Bb Am G C |
And that's worth something when you think about it
Bb Am G C |2/4 Bb Am G| G C | G G/B Am |
That's worth some money
[CHORUS]
G C |G D |
To prove that I love you, Because I believe in you
G C |G G/B Am G|
Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast
G C |G D |
If I have money If I have children
G C |G G/B Am G|
Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast
G C |G D |
If I have weaknesses don't let them blind me now
G C |G G/B Am G|
Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast
G C |G D |
Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah
G C |G G/B Am |
Summer skies, stars are falling
G C |G D |G C |
Leaving the shadow of the valley behind me now
G G/B Am |
All along the injured coast
Repeat and fade:
G C |G D |
Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah
G C |G G/B Am G |
Summer skies, stars are falling all along the in---jured coast
G/D: xx0003
C/G: 332010
G/B: x20003
D/F#: 200232
Intro riff - relative to the nut, NOT the capo; [x] = tied note
s s s s s e s. s e. e e s s s s s e s. s e s. s s e s s s s
e|--------||----------------------------|---------------------------------||
B|--------||----------------------------|---------------------------------||
G|--------||*---------------------------|--------------------------------*||
D|-6-5----||*---------------5-5---------|-------------------------6-5----*||
A|-----8-6||-[6]-5-------5--6-6--6-5----|--------------5-[5]-6-8------8-6-||
E|--------||-------8-[8]-------------8-6|[6]-6-8-[8]-6--------------------|| x3
s e s. s e. e e s s s s s e s. s e. q. e
e|---------------------------|-------------------------|
B|---------------------------|-------------------------|
G|---------------------------|-----------------------5-|
D|---------------5-5---------|-------------------------|
A|[6]-5-------5--6-6--6-5----|-------------------------|
E|------8-[8]-------------8-6|[6]-6-8-[8]-6--6---------|
