Shiver Me Timbers - chords, tab and comments
From his second album "The Heart of Saturday Night" (1973), this is the most covered song by Tom Waits besides "Ol'55". Even Bette Midler has recorded it - and along with all other cover artists, she performs it as a tribute to the ocean. It is not; Tom Waitz had a darker side already back in -73. Read between the lines, and You'll find a song about committing suicide; the scene painted marine.
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I'm leaving my family
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leaving all my friends
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my body's at home but my heart's in the wind
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where the clouds are like headlines
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on a new frontpage sky
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my tears are salt water and the moon's full and high
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now the fog's lifting and the sand's shifting
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I'm drifting on out
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old captain Ahab he ain't got nothing on me
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so come on swallow me don't follow me
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I'm travelling alone
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blue water's my daughter I'm gonna skip like a stone