Guitar Chords & Tab: Shaky Isles
Shakey Isles - Dave Dobbyn ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Not released on any album - this transcription from a scratchily-recorded radio single. Transcribed by John Kean.
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Capo 2nd fret. 4/4 time.
Chords marked are 1 bar duration, except those in the bridge, which are 1 beat.
Note: Chords marked * have the following riff played over them:
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INTRO:
E E E E A A E*
VERSE 1:
E E E
It's not very far, a mere stone's throw away
E E
From the quay in the city, you walk round by the wall
A A
They built in the depression, the sea wall of stone
E* E B
The tide is rolling in over a small rock I used to fish on with the old man
B A
I get a warm feeling looking across the bay
A E* E
The sun's going down
VERSE 2:
E
I'm dressed in black, sweating in my shoes
E
It's a hot humid gray day, I've got fear
A A E E E
Tears welling in my eyes, it comes as no surprise to me now, no
B
Yeah, I think about the lies we told
B A
Went down through the fishing nylon in the bay
A
I laugh about it now
CHORUS 1:
E E E E
Standing on Shaky Island, standing on Shaky Island
A A
It's shaking me down to my bones, down where I belong
E E
To where I'm free I guess, yes
B B
Feels like the Motherland, the Fatherland, got a father buried on the hill
A
With a better view than I, I know
A E E
I'm standing on Shaky Isles, yep
BRIDGE 1: B B B A E E E/G# A I have my head down, I've seen so much of the ground lately B B B A E E/G# A I look up, it's all aglaze B B B A E E E/G# A And when your heart is aching this bad baby B B B A E E E/G# A I guess that's what it feels like to belong anyway
CHORUS 2:
E E E E
Standing on Shaky Island, standing on Shaky Island, yeah
E E A A
(Oh-na-na, oh-na-na, oh-na-na, oh-na-na)
E* E
(Oh-na-na, oh-na-na, oh-na-na, oh-na-na)
B B
Don't it feel like a Motherland, the Fatherland, take it any way you can
A A E* E
(Standing on Shaky Island) Standing on these Shaky Isles
BRIDGE 2: (as for bridge 1)
CHORUS 3:
E E E E
Standing on Shaky Island, standing on Shaky Island
A A
It's shaking me down to my bones, down where I belong
E E
To where I'm free I guess, yes, I take it with me
B B
A Motherland, the Fatherland, got a father buried on the hill
A
With the best view in town
A
I'm standing on Shaky Isles
OUTRO:
E* E A
(Standing on Shaky Island) Standing on Shaky Isles
A E*
With the best view in town
E B B
Don't it feel like a Motherland, a Fatherland, take it any way you can
C#m
The best view in town
A E* E
Standing on these Shaky Isles
A A E* E
Seen so much of the ground, seen so much of the ground
B B A A
It feels like, looks like, it feels like, yeah
E*
I belong
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