Words and music by Ian
Anderson, from Secret Language of Birds
Transcription by Peter
Dawson (Australia), all corrections are welcome.
First part of intro x2
(Spacing indicates approximate relative timing)
|Dm
C Dm
F G
|-----------------3--5--1-|---------------------|
|----3--------135---------|----3--------1---3---|
|0H2----2-----------------|0H2----2-----2---4---|
|----------3--------------|----------3--3---5---|
|-------------------------|---------------------|
|-------------------------|---------------------|
Second part of intro
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|1.
||2.
|Dm
C
Dm F
G ||Dm
|-----------------------------|--------------------------------||--------------------------|
|3--3-3-1-31------------------|------------------3-3-0-1-------||---3------3------3--------|
|-----------2-----------------|--------------0-2---------2-0---||---2------2------2------7-|
|-------------3-3-2-0---0-2-0-|0-000-2-3-2-3-----------------3-||0-----0H2----2H3----3S5---|
|---------------------3-------|--------------------------------||--------------------------|
|-----------------------------|--------------------------------||--------------------------|
[Dm]Night close in on
a shan[C]ty [Dm]town.
[F]Panama freighter
wearing [C]rusty brown.
But she [Dm]sails tomorrow
and she's [Am]homeward bound.
[C]Head up on a lumpy
sea[G], on a lumpy sea.[Dm]
I�m not the [Dm]only
lonely [C]planet rider
[F]in this one horse
town, I'm [G]thinking.
[Dm]And I won't [C]over-rate
or [Dm]patronize you. [Dm/e Dm/f Dm/g]
[Dm]I know we're as
different as [C]chalk and cheese;
as [F]black hole winters
and [C]salad days
and I [Dm]wouldn't like
your mother much [Am]any way.
But it's not [C]her
I'm taking home with [G]me,
not her I'm taking home
with [Dm]me.
Don't in[Dm]tend to dress
you in [C]silver [Dm]threads
like some [F]trophy
in sublime se[G]clusion.
[Dm]Won't try to [C]educate
or [Dm]civilize you. [Dm/e Dm/f Dm/g]
Instrumental, based on Am sandwiched by intro chords, but repeating the second part of the intro is a good substitute
[Dm]Night close in on
a shan[C]ty [Dm]town.
[F]Panama freighter
wearing [C]rusty brown.
Well she [Dm]sails tomorrow
and she's [Am]homeward bound.
and you're [C]bound
to come home with [G]me.
Bound to come home with
me.[Dm]
And you're [C]bound
to come home with [Dm]me.
On the [C]Panama freighter
with [Dm]me.
Finish with second part
of intro