Gordon Lightfoot – On The High Seas (Guitar)

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Album: Dream Street Rose (1980) 3/4 time [Verse 1]
       G           G             G          G
Was it someone she met that's so hard to forget

       C               C        G          G
Was it some kind of an ocean of changes?
[Chorus]
Am        B            Em                 Cmaj7
I don't remember where she said she would be

    F#m7          B7           Em7     Em
And since I don't know, let me guess
[Interlude] A Amaj7 Bm7 E7 A Amaj7 Bm7 E7 [Verse 2]
       A            A               Amaj7       Amaj7
Was it somewhere in Michigan or the Lake of the Woods

      A7b9              Bm7       E7
Up in old Montreal or Toronto the good

Bm7          E7      Amaj7        A7
Somewhere in Reno or somewhere in Rome

         Dmaj7           Gmaj7
And when all is said and done

         Cmaj7     Cmaj7  G   G
Will she leave me alone?
[Bridge]
                G           D
I don't want to get so low

    C         G           G            D
And as for my sadness, it comes and it goes
[Chorus]
Em        C            G                  Em
I don't remember where she said she would be

G           C       D           G     G   D     D
Back in the city or on the high seas
[Interlude] A Amaj7 Bm7 E7 [Verse 3]
       A         A               Amaj7         Amaj7
Was it up in Hornpayne where the trains run on time

        A7b9                        Bm7         E7
Was she drinking champagne when she made up her mind?

Bm7          E7        Amaj7         A7
North of the border or down in South Bend

         Dmaj7           Gmaj7
And when all is said and done

         Cmaj7           Cmaj7 G   G   G
Is there no    rainbow's end?
[Bridge]
                G             D
I don't want to own the key

   C            G             G             D      D
To some ghostly mansion where souls are set free
[Chorus]
Em        C            G                  Em
I don't remember where she said she would go

G                C          D            G
Straight for the highway or down the low road
[Chorus]
Em        C            G                  Em
I don't remember where she said she would be

G           C       D           G     G
Back in the city or on the high seas
[Outro]
  G    G    D    C    G    G
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