Lou Reed – The Heroine (Guitar)

    D                Em
The heroine stood up on the deck

    G
the ship was out of control

D                   Em
  the bow was being ripped to shreds

         G
men were fighting down below

    D                     Em
The sea had pummeled them for so long

          G                Bb
that they knew nothing but fear

        C
And the baby's in his box

Am
  he thinks the door is locked

    C
the sea is in a state

    Am             G
the baby learns to wait

        C
for the heroine

F      G               C
Ooohhh-ooohhh, for the heroine

F             G                 C
locked in his defense, he waits for the heroine

    D                       Em
The mast is cracking as the waves are slapping

G
sailors rolled across the deck

    D                    Em
and when they thought no one was looking

           G
they would cut a weaker man's neck

          D                    Em
While the heroine dressed in a virgin white dress

         G
tried to steer the mighty ship

        D                     Em
But the raging storm wouldn't hear of it

          G             Bb
they were in for a long trip

C
Baby's in a box

Am
  thinks the door is locked

   C
he finds it hard to breathe

Am
  drawing in the sea

                C          F
And where's the heroine to fire off the gun

   C
to calm the raging seas

    F
and let herself be seized by the -

C
Baby in the box

Am
  he thinks the door is locked

    C
the woman has the keys

               A
but there's no moment she can seize

              F
Here's to the heroine

    G
who transcends all the men

        C
Who are locked inside the box

         Am
will the lady let him out

            F        Bb     C           F
Ooohhh, the heroine, ooohhh-ooohhh, the heroine

Bb              F         G     Bb       C
Strapped to the mast, the pale ascendant heroine

Bb              F         G     Bb       C
strapped to the mast, the pale ascendant heroine