Tabbed by: Jonathan Migliori
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A beautiful song, with some close, but not quite there tabs. I hope you
enjoy it.
Tuning: Standard
Guitar I: Lead (Noble)
Guitar II: Rhythm (Yan)
Chords (I prefer the open chords, but barre chords can be used as well)
GDBmC
e|------3-------2-------2-------0--------0-----------0----------------
B|------0-------3-------3-------1--------0-----------0----------------
G|------0-------2-------4-------0--------0-----------0----------------
D|------0-------0-------4-------2--------2-----------2----------------
A|------2---------------2-------3--------3-----------2----------------
E|------3--------------------------------------------0----------------
Main Riff:
CGEm
e|------------------------------ ------------------7-5-------------
B|------------------------------ --------------5-8-----8-----------
G|---4^5~4^5~4^5~4^5~4^5~-2--0-- x6 --/7-4-7-4-7------------------
D|------------------------------ ----------------------------------
A|------------------------------ ----------------------------------
E|------------------------------ ----------------------------------
The first phrase is played over a different chord after every repeat.
First over C, then
then G, then Em, then C, then D
Verse 1:
G D Bm C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7 (hyphen means quick
change)
GDBmC-Cmaj7C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
Under the brine, you won't notice the dark
GDBmC-Cmaj7
Can stone and steel, and horses' heels ever explain the way
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C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
you feel
GDBmC-Cmaj7C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
From Scapa Flow to Rotherhithe, I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
Bridge:
GDBmC
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------
G|-------4^5------4^5------4^5-2-0-----------------------------------|
D|--0h2------0h2------0h2-------------0-4^5----0-4^5-----0-4^5-4/5/7|
A|----------------------------------2-------2---------2---------------
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------
C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7 (Notes and chords change together)
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------
G|-5-4--5-4--5-4-----------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------
e||
B||
G|
D|
A||
E||
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Chorus:
CD
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
GEm
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
CD
Always, always, always the sea
GEm
Brilliantine mortality
Main Riff (Repeat first phrase only twice)
Verse 2:
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GDBmC-Cmaj7C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
So irrigate your heart until you know you're complete
GDBmC-Cmaj7C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
And your draped in kelp, below by 8,000 feet
GDBmC-Cmaj7
"My soul," she cried, "I thought you'd died amid fumes of
C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
formaldehyde"
GDBmC-Cmaj7C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
You have been gone for so long. I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
Bridge 2 (with lyrics):
GDBmC
My love, I felt the lapping of an
ebbing tide!
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------
G|-------4^5------4^5------4^5-2-0-----------------------------------|
D|--0h2------0h2------0h2-------------0-4^5----0-4^5-----0-4^5-4/5/7|
A|----------------------------------2-------2---------2---------------
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------
C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7 (Notes and chords change together)
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------
G|-5-4--5-4--5-4------------------------------------------------------
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------
e||
B||
G|
D|
A||
E||
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Chorus
Main Riff
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Solo:
e|-----7/12-12-12-12-12-10-10-10-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------------|
B|-----5h8-5h8-5h8/10^11^11^11^11^11^11^11|
G|----------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------|
Interlude:
CDGEm
When this corpus christic isle became a landed ocean blue
CD
Again she cried, "You turned my eye"
GEm
At mentions of "no matter why"
(First phrase of Main Riff repeated for the rest of Interlude and First
Chorus)
CD
And in the end an August sun
GEm
Of one by one it blew
CD
Until the devil screamed in the evermore
GEm
In envy of the grace we saw
G
The sound… (Chorus starts here making the rest of the Interlude lyrics
unintelligible)
Chorus:
CD
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
GEm
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
CD
Always, always, always the sea
GEm
Brilliantine mortality
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CD
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
GEm
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
CD
Always, always, always the sea
G (Guitar stops)
Brilliantine mortality
In summation:
Main Riff
Verse
Bridge
Chorus
Main Riff (Shortened)
Verse
Bridge 2
Chorus
Main Riff
Solo
Interlude
Chorus (x2)
Note: There is a quick chord from Guitar I after the first and third
lines of the
I don't know what it is. Also, The lyrics of the interlude are hard to
distinguish, so those
my approximations. Enjoy.
| ^ bend
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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