Key: C major•
Verse 1
C
Em
C
F
C
Em
Dm
F
A
G
C
I drifted
G
C
in the Doldrums,
F
C
almost dead,
G
C
A weedy, watery, trail,
G
C
Em
With a useless rag,
C
F
C
Em
hangin above my head,
G
Dm
G
Not a breath o' breeze to fill my sail,
C
G
C
G
Then liftin' up my spyglass,
F
C
ol' Buckley's hope,
G
F
C
Dm
C
I seen somethin' o'er the waves,
D
C
C
F
C
I left my boat,
G
Em
C
And swam out on my way.
Verse 2
Dm
C
Here I sing, oh- de- lee- ee- oh- de- lay- ee,
G
C
Dbdim
Soft an' sweet
Dm
G
Got no shirt or shoes upon my feet,
Db
C
F
C
Out in the middle of an o- o- ocean,
Gm
F
C
Dm
Doin' my thing,
E
C
G
I'm happy just to dream, and sing,
C
F
Out livin' like a marabout king,
G
C
F
G
C
G
Out on a Desert Isle
Verse 3
F
C
bend an' sway,
G
Bm
G
C
The fish swim 'bout my feet,
G
C
G
And a breeze blowin' soft
Edim
F
C
'pon the cordgrass play,
G
Dm
C
Dm
A lazy old melody, cool an' sweet,
G
C
G
C
As the sun goes sinkin' in a painted sky,
G
C
My eye's on a pool of light,
G
C
G
Where the stars cast a twink
C
F
C
Em
lin' veil on high,
G
Dm
C
G
F
C
Where I sleep out everynight...
Verse 4
mornin' the silence broke,
Dm
C
As beset by a sea high- horned
G
C
in waves I awoke,
A
Dm
G
To find no remnants of that paradise,
Bm
G
Bdim
What laid about me, were a changed,
C
F
C
unfriendly land,
C
Dm
I sings this song of water an' dun e,
C
G
Out of the gloom,
C
Em
Dbdim
D
G
there came a sound like cry in' in the night,
Dm
D
C
My blue ruined eyes I thought lied,
D
G
Bm
A woman draggin' up,
D
Em
G
out of that squawlin' tide.
Verse 5
F
G
Dm
On a desert isle,
tired an' beat,
Dm
G
Writin' help, in letters fifteen feet,
Em
G
Out on the beach,
C
F
C
F
beside an o- o- ocean,
C
F
Woe is me,
E
C
G
a cryin baby bouncin' on my knee,
C
A
Dm
G
In a little grass shack built for three,
Bm
Em
G
C
F
G
C
Out on a Desert Isle.
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