The Talisman chords by
Iron Maiden
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Key: D minor
Intro 1
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Am

Verse 1
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When I stand and look about
the port
And contemplate my life
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Bm

Will I ever see my countrymen again?
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Am

As the captain calls us
Verse 2
on the deck
I take my things and walk
to the harborside
Verse 3
I glance back one last time
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Am

Fleeing our nation
Our problems we leave behind
Ships by the tenfold sail out on the tide
We are pleased to be out and
embracing the open sea
Free from our troubles and more
free from thee
Verse 4
Am
Am

Inheritors unfulfilled reason behind us
We flee from what is not what is will be
We flee the earth and face our harsh reality
Will death be low mist
that hangs on the sea?
Verse 5
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Am

We run from the evil tongues
Rash judgements, selfish men
Never to be seen on these shores again
Verse 6
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As we sail into ocean size
And lose sight of land
A face of contentment around in the air
We're off now to seek all our fortunes
Interlude 1
To the land of our dreams
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Verse 7
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Riding the waves and the storm
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C

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G

is upon us
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The winds lash the sails
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But the ropes keep them tight
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Off in the distance a dark
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G

cloud approaching
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None could imagine what
there was to come
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No, there's
Verse 8
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no one going back
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No, there's not a second chance
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As we strap onto the side
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We pray to God that we won't die
Verse 9
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As we ride the rough seas
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As we soak from the ocean waves
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I just hope for all our lives
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G

And pray that I survive
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Four
Verse 10
ships are lost in the
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stormy conditions
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The spirits of the sunken crews
Their phantoms follow us
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Spirits sails,
Verse 11
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they drive us on
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C

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Through the all consuming waves
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Cold mortality, no weapon
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Against these ever raging seas
Interlude 2
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D5
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Verse 12
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Four leagues and ten and
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we hit storms again
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We just can't get away from
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the eye of the storm
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The birds outsoar the raging storm
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But we cannot escape it
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Abandoned earth, that we now crave
Is many leagues from safe
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Holding
Verse 13
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on for our dear lives
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And we're praying once again
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Rotten luck or just jonahed?
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The talisman is in my hand
Interlude 3
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Verse 14
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Limbs fatigues, trembling with cold
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Blinded from the sea spray salt
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Clasping anything we can hold
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D5
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Heaven's rain upon us falls
Verse 15
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Twenty days without a meal
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And ten without fresh water still
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Those that didn't die
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in storms
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The scurvy rest did slaughter
Interlude 4
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Verse 16
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Westwards the tide
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Westwards we sail on
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Dm

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Dm

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Westwards the tide
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Sail by the talisman
Interlude 5
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Bm
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Bm
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Bm
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Verse 17
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We approach the other side
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Of the ocean with the tide
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In our favor just for once
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D5

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Welcome greeting our new land
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The elation in our hearts
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The excitement in our veins
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As we sail towards the coastline
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Of our golden promised land
Interlude 6
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Weary limbs
Verse 18
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fatigued away
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I have no life left in me
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No more strength and
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nothing left to give
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Must find the will to live
Verse 19
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Never thought that we could make it
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Truly sight of shores divine
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The sickness I am dy ing from
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Never wanted it to end
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this way
Verse 20
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Westwards the tide
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Westwards we sail on
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D5

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Westwards the tide
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Sail by the talisman
Verse 21
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Dm
Dm

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Westwards the
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tide
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Westwards we sail
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Westwards the tide
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Sail by the talisman
Outro 1
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D5
D5

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Am
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