Blue Öyster Cult – Del Rios Song (Guitar)

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[Intro] C G G# G# [Pre-Chorus 1]
Dm           G              C                 F
I've lived upon the edge of chance for twenty years or more

Dm          G                    C   C
And this is what my friends all mean
[Chorus 1]
       Dm         G
By Del Rio's song (Oh, Del Rio)

    Dm         G
[tab]    Dm          G
Del Rio's Song (Oh, Del Rio)

    Dm          G            Bb
Del Rio's Song (Oh, Del Rio)
[Post-Chorus 1]
               F                C
When time gets slow, and rivers freeze

              G           G
I think you'd know enough
[Verse 1]
   Dm                 G     C
To call in touch that outer frame

    F             G
The inner gain, a sullen gulch

      Am              F                 G     Gsus4 G
Which opens up on the way to Blindman's Bluff

  Dm            G     C
A suburb now of River Roads

      F              G
Where quandry and sublime improve

    Am              F
The sight whose imagery

             G            G
Is sometimes that of fear
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Dm          G               C                 F
I've lived upon the edge of chance for twenty years or more

Dm          G                   C   C
And this is what my friends all mean
[Chorus 2]
       Dm         G
By Del Rio's song (Oh, Del Rio)

    Dm         G
Del Rio's Song (Oh, Del Rio)

    Dm          G
Del Rio's Song (Oh, Del Rio)

    Dm          G            Bb
Del Rio's Song (Oh, Del Rio)
[Post-Chorus 2]
               F                C
When time gets slow, and rivers freeze

              G           G
I think you'd know enough
[Verse 2]
   Dm                G           C
To shut the gates of walled town walls

    F               G              Am
And putting up some good rum punch

           F                 G    Gsus4 G
Forget the way to Blindman's Bluff

   Dm                    G         C
So packed with eyes that glow like coals

    F                    G
And pointing towards the North

       Am               F         G  Gsus4
Oh, my boat left New Orleans in 1829!
[Instrumental] D5 D5 D5 C5 G5 C5 D5 D5 D5 C5 G5 G5 x8 D5 G x2 D5 [Bridge]
                           G
My destination is a secret

                         D5
And the doctrine is soft

                                 G
And just between the verse and me

                              D5
It's a place where you can see

              G
Lost, last and luminous

                            D5
Scored to sky yet never found relics of jewels

                   G
And ant-track tools

                                  F
A true ghost danc rehearsal ground

F G x8
ooooh
Am [Pre-Chorus 3]
Dm          G               C                 F
I've lived upon the edge of chance for twenty years or more

Dm          G                   C   C
And this is what my friends all mean

Dm          G               C                 F
I've lived upon the edge of chance for twenty years or more

Dm          G                   C   C
And this is what my friends all mean
[Chorus 3]
       Dm         G
By Del Rio's song (Oh, Del Rio) (vamp)