Cryin' To Be Heard
Traffic

(Dave Mason)

from the album Traffic (Oct, 1968)


 Intro:

         (saxes, bass, and organ over verse chord progression)
         
 Chorus:

          D          Bb           F
         Somebody's cryin' to be heard
                      D    Bb                F    D/A
         And there's also someone who hears every word

 Verse 1:

          Am              D               Am               D
         Sail across the ocean with your back against the wind
          Gm           C                Gm           C
         Listening to nothing save the calling of a bird
              Am              D             Am                  D
         And when the rain begins to fall, don't you start to curse
            Gm                 C              Gm              C
         It may be just the tears of someone that you never heard

 [repeat chorus]

 Verse 2:

         Reflected in the water is a face that you don't know
         And isn't it surprising when you find out it's your own?
         And so you try to find out whether it is friend or foe
         And what it wants to know, and what it wants to know

 [repeat chorus]

 Verse 3:

         Well, you're wrapped up in your little world and no one can get in
         You sit and think of everything, then you wonder where you've been
         You put the blame on someone that you've hardly ever known
         And then you realize too late the blame was all your own
          
 [repeat chorus]

 [repeat verse 1, call-and-response]:

         Sail across the ocean with your back against the wind
               (sail across the ocean          with your back against the wind) 
         Listening to nothing save the calling of a bird
               (listening to nothing    save the calling of a bird)
         And when the rain begins to fall, don't you start to curse
                      (and when the rain begins to fall       don't you start
                            to curse)
         It may be just the tears of someone that you never heard
                           (it may be just the tears of someone that you
                               never heard)

 [repeat chorus]

 Coda:

         (long jam on D to end)


 -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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