Columbus
To: jamesb@nevada.edu
Subject: "Columbus" as performed by Mary Black
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# transcribed by Greg Knapp & Don Wegeng (wegeng.henr801c@xerox.com)
# 14 January 1993
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E A
Better keep your distance from this whale
E A
Better keep your boat from going astray
C#m
Find yourself a partner and treat them well
E A
Try to give them shelter night and day
G
'Cos here in this blue light
E G
Far away from the fireside
E G D
Things can get twisted and crazy and crowded
Em
You can't even feel right
C
So you dream of Columbus
D
Every time the panic starts
C
You dream of Columbus
D
With your maps and your beautiful charts
Em
You dream of Columbus
G D
With an ache in your travelling heart
A C#m
See how the cormorant swoops and dives
E A
Must be some thrill to go that deep
C#m
Down to the basement of this life
E A
Down to where the mermaid gently sleeps
G
Not like here in this blue light
E G
Far away from the fireside
E G D
Where things can get twisted and haunted and crowded
Em
You can't even feel alright
Em D
And as tide must ebb and flow
Am Em
I am dragged down under
C D
And I wait the livelong day
Am Em
For and end to my hunger
C
So I dream of Columbus
D
Every time that the panic starts
C
I dream of Columbus
D
With my maps and my beautiful charts
Em
I dream of Columbus
G D
And there's peace in a travelling heart
C
I dream of Columbus...