Billie Holiday – I Cover The Waterfront (Guitar Intro Tab)

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Johnny Green wrote this song in 1933. Here's me playing the tabL: https://youtu.be/Hl_F405zKYM?si=nwTdOuEdHM9y0eVb Dmaj7add13 x57677 Ebmaj7add13 x68788 [Intro] Abm7 Gm7 F7 Bb7+5 Bb7

Ebmaj7        Db7
Away from the city

     Ebmaj7    Db7
that hurts and knocks,

Ebmaj7        Db7
I'm standing alone

Ebmaj7          Db7
by the desolate docks

       Ebmaj7        Bb13         Ebmaj7  Db7
In the still and the chill of the night

  Ebmaj7  Db7
I see the horizon

Ebmaj7       Db7
 the great unknown

   Ebmaj7       Db7
My heart has an ache

        Ebmaj7   Db7
It's as heavy as stone

         Ebmaj7      Bb13        Ebmaj7   E9
With the dawn coming on, make it last

[Verse]

F9          Bb13
I cover the waterfront

Ebmaj7   Abmaj7       Gm7  Gbm7
     I'm watching the sea

         Fm7           Bb7+5          Ebmaj7  Cm7  Fm7  Bb7+5
Will the one I love be coming back to me?

[Verse]

F9          Bb13
I cover the waterfront

Ebmaj7  Abmaj7       Gm7  Gbm7
     In search of my love

        Fm7        Bb7+5         Ebmaj7    Ab7 Bb7 Ebmaj7
And I'm covered by a starlit sky above

[Bridge]

Fm7     Bb7
Here am I

Gm7          C7
   patiently waiting,

 Fm7        Bb7
hoping and longing

Gm7       Ebmaj7
Oh, how I yearn

Gm7       C7
Where are you?

Am7        D7
Are you forgetting?

Gm7      C7
Do you remember?

Fm7         Bb7
Will you return?

[Outro]

F9            Bb13
  I cover the waterfront

Ebmaj7   Abmaj7       Gm7  Gbm7
     I'm watching the sea

         Fm7            Bb7+5             Ebmaj7  Gm7   C7
For the one I love must soon come back to me?

[Instrumental] F9 Bb13 Ebmaj7 Abmaj7 Gm7 Gbm7

         Fm7            Bb7+5          Dmaj7add13 Ebmaj7add13
For the one I love must soon come back to         me?