Frolic With Closet Lizards chords by Bruce Hampton
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Verse 1
(A minor) This is the log of an (G minor) epi c voyage.
(A minor) Here, from the ship's tape recorder,
are the actual voices
and sounds of the greatest navigational
feat in this century.
A (B flat major) voyage that cut 5
(A minor) ,000 miles
off the sea route from
Asia to
Europe and gave the
United
States and its allies naval
supremacy at the top of the world.
For 500 years,
bowmen have attempted to break through the polar ice to open a northwest
passage.
Men like
Henry
Hudson,
Sebastian
Cabot,
Sir
Francis
Drake.
The bones of a thousand mariners are
lost in the ancient ice, the black deeps of the
sea.
This is what it is like to go on a flight beneath
the pole in an undersea spaceship.
Bouncing off the floor of the sea,
the solar ping is the song of the submarine.
The captain is a modest
(C major) mariner from the hills of
Tennessee,
(A minor) Admiral
Gregory
Thomas
Wilson.
I was brought in to discussion of the
possibility of making a transpolar
voyage in
Janvier of this year.
We made preliminary voyages under
the ice left
Satombra. (C major)
(A minor) On the maximum penetration she reached a
point (C major) within 180 (A minor) miles from
the pole.
We had great difficulties but we learned
a lot. (C major) I was told to prepare
(A minor) in secrecy for a possible transpolar
voyage. (C major)
(F major) He forgets to (A minor) tell about the near trapping at
the arctic wasteland where
(F major) Eskimos gave
him (A minor) some gas.
(F major) We (A minor) departed the island on the 28th of
July. (A minor)
(C major)
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(A minor) I'm going to try
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