Paul Simon – The Coast (Guitar Intro)
Capo 3
Key
-
Versions
(4)
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
Intro: || G/D C/G | G/D G | G/D C/G | % ||
|| G/D C/G | G/D G | G/D C/G | G/D G ||
V: || G/D C | G/D G :||x3 | G/D C | G/D / G G/B |
P-C: || Am G G/B / | % | Am G | D G/B Am G D/F# | C/G ||
||: Bb Am G / C :||x4 | Bb Am G / |
Ch: || G / / C | G / / D | G / / C | G / G/B Cm G |
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[VERSE 1]
|G/D C |G/D G A family of musicians took shelter for the night |G C |G/D G | In the little harbor church of St. Cecilia C |G/D G | Two guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine C |G/D G G/B | Rose of Jericho and Bougainvillea
[Pre-Chorus]
Am G G/B | Am G G/B | Am G | This is a lone---ly life D G/B Am G D/F#|C/G | Sorrows everywhere you turn |Bb Am G C | And that's worth something when you think about it Bb Am G C | That's worth some money |Bb Am G C | And that's worth something when you think about it Bb Am G C |Bb Am G That's worth some money
[VERSE 2]
|G/D C |G/D G | A trip to the market, a trip into the pearl gray morning sunlight C |G/D G | That settles over Washington C |G/D G A trip to the market, a trip around the world | C |G/D G Where the evening meal is negotiable, if there is one.
[PRE-CHORUS]
G/B |Am G G/B| Am G G/B | Am G | This is a lonely-lone, lonely life D G/B Am G D/F#|C/G | Sorrows everywhere you turn |Bb Am G C | And that's worth something when you think about it Bb Am G C | That's worth some money |Bb Am G C | And that's worth something when you think about it Bb Am G C |Bb Am G | C | G | C |G G/B Am| That's worth some money
[CHORUS]
G C |G D | To prove that I love you, Because I believe in you G C |G G/B Am G| Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast G C |G D | If I have money If I have children G C |G G/B Am G| Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast G C |G D | Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah G C |G G/B Am G| Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast
N.C | % | G C | G | C |
[VERSE 3]
G | C |G/D G We are standing in the sunlight, the early morning sunlight | C | In the harbor church of Saint Cecilia G/D G C |G/D G To praise a soul's returning to the earth | C |G/D G G/B | To the Rose of Jericho and the Bougainvillea
[PRE-CHORUS]
Am G G/B |Am G G/B |Am G | C | % | % This is the on-----ly life |Bb Am G C | And that's worth something when you think about it Bb Am G C | That's worth some money |Bb Am G C | And that's worth something when you think about it Bb Am G C |2/4 Bb Am G| G C | G G/B Am | That's worth some money
[CHORUS]
G C |G D | To prove that I love you, Because I believe in you G C |G G/B Am G| Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast G C |G D | If I have money If I have children G C |G G/B Am G| Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast G C |G D | If I have weaknesses don't let them blind me now G C |G G/B Am G| Summer skies, stars are falling all along the injured coast G C |G D | Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah G C |G G/B Am | Summer skies, stars are falling G C |G D |G C | Leaving the shadow of the valley behind me now G G/B Am | All along the injured coast
Repeat and fade:
G C |G D | Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah G C |G G/B Am G | Summer skies, stars are falling all along the in---jured coast
G/D: xx0003
C/G: 332010
G/B: x20003
D/F#: 200232
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