Gordon Lightfoot – High And Dry (Guitar)

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by Gordon Lightfoot (Good for a simple lesson in broken barre chords) CHORDS A = x07655 D = xx0775 E = 079900 [Intro] A A A A [Verse 1]
       A            A
With a lady-like devotion

    A                A
She sails the bitter ocean

      D                    D
If it wasn't for lovesick sailors

           D                A
There'd be nothin' left but flotsam
[Chorus]
        E          D
Singin' why, me oh my

           A               D
Is there a better man than I

           A                  E
I hope you find your way back home

           A            D
Before you lie high and dry

           A                  E
I hope you find your way back home

           A   D  A  D
Before you die
[Verse 2]
    A                 A
Her sails billow like bubbles

         A             A
While ya sip yer daily doubles

       D                     D
If she wasn't so fond of the weather

          D                  A
She might give the deckhands trouble
[Chorus]
        E          D
Singin' why, me oh my

           A               D
Is there a better man than I

           A                  E
I hope you find your way back home

           A            D
Before you lie high and dry

           A                  E
I hope you find your way back home

           D     A  E
Before you die
[Verse 3]
    A               N.C.
One day when I grew older

      A                
And I found I could not hold her

    D                    D
She took on a fine young skipper

         D               A
Who soon run her up on a boulder
[Chorus]
        E          D
Singin' why, me oh my

           A               D
Is there a better man than I

           A                  E
I hope you find your way back home

           A            D
Before you lie high and dry

           A                  E
I hope you find your way back home

           A   D  A  D  A  E
Before you die
[Verse 4]
        A                N.C.
Now the pleasures of the harbor

         A           A7
Don't include a lady barber

      D                    D
If it wasn't for Long John Silver

          D                     A
All of us pirates would've been martyrs
[Chorus]
        E          D
Singin' why, me oh my

           A               D
Is there a better man than I

           A                  E
I hope you find your way back home

           A            D
Before you lie high and dry

           A                  E
I hope you find your way back home

           A            D
Before you lie high and dry

           A                  E
I hope you find your way back home

           A
Before you die