СAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: F Dm7 Dm G C
When I
went to your town on the
wide open shore
Oh, I must con
fess, I was drawn, I was
drawn to the
ocean
I
thought it spoke
to me, it said,
“Look at
us, we’re not
churches, not
schools,
Not
skating ponds,
swimming pools,
And we have lost people,
haven’t we though?”
Oh,
that’s what the ocean can
know of a body
And
that’s when I came back to
town
This town is a song about
you
You don’t know
how
lucky you
are
You don’t know
how
much I a
dore you
You are the
welcoming
back from the
ocean
I went back to the
ocean today
With my
books and my papers, I
went to the rocks by the
ocean
But the
weather changed
quickly
Oh, the
ocean said, “What are you
trying to
find,
I don’t
care, I’m not k
ind, I have
bludgeoned your sailors,
I’ve
spat out their keepsakes”
Oh, it’s
ashes to ashes, but
always the ocean
But the
ocean can’t come to this
town
This town is a song about
you
You don’t know
how
lucky you
are
You don’t know
how
much I a
dore you
You are the
welcoming
back from the
ocean
INTERLUDE: F G Am F Dm G C
La la lee la la, le la la le la la la (3x) la
And the
ones that can know you so
well
Are the ones that can swallow you
whole
I have a
good and
I have an
evil
I thought the
ocean, the
ocean thought
nothing
You are the
welcoming
back from the
ocean
I didn’t
go back to
day
I
wanted to show you that
I was more land than
water
I
went to pick
flowers
I
brought them to you, look at
me, look at
them
With their
salt up the
stem, but you
frowned
When I smiled and I
tried to arrange them
You
said, “Let me tell you the
song of this town”
You said, “
Everything closes at
five.
After that, well, you just got the
bars.”
“
You don’t know
how
precious you
are
Walking a
round with your
little shoes
dangling
I am the
one who
lives with the
ocean.
“It’s where we
came from, you know.”
“And sometimes I just want to go
back.
After a
day, we’ll
drink ’til we’re
drowning
Walk to the
ocean, wade
in with our
work-boots
Wade in our
work-boots, try to
finish the
job.”
“
You don’t know
how
precious you
are
I am the
one who
lives with the
ocean
You don’t know
how, I am the
one
You don’t know
how,
I am the
one”
INTERLUDE: (## repeat about 15x – fade to end ##)
La la lee la la, le
la la le
la la la