The Talisman chords by Iron Maiden

Chords with lyrics

Key: DmDm

🤘 Intro:

|Dm7Dm7 |C majorC | 2x


🤘 Verse 1:
     Dm7Dm7
When I stand and look about the port
   C majorC
And contemplate my life
    Dm7Dm7           C majorC
Will I ever see my countrymen again?
    Dm7Dm7
As the captain calls us on the deck
  C6C6
I take my things and walk
    Dm7Dm7
To the harbour side
            A minorAm  Asus4Asus4
I glance back one last time

🤘 Verse 2:
 Am7Am7    Dm7Dm7      E minor 7Em7        Dm7Dm7
Fleeing our nation, our problems we leave behind
 FF      E minor 7Em7     Dm7Dm7     E minor 7Em7
Ships by the tenfold sail out on the tide
     Am7Am7     Dm7Dm7     E minor 7Em7    Dm7Dm7
We are pleased to be out and embracing the open sea
 FF       E minor 7Em7     Dm7Dm7       E minor 7Em7
Free from our troubles and more free from thee
 Am7Am7   Dm7Dm7     E minor 7Em7   Dm7Dm7
Inheritors unfulfilled reason behind us
 FF       E minor 7Em7     Dm7Dm7    E minor 7Em7
We flee from what is not, what is will be
 Am7Am7    Dm7Dm7      E minor 7Em7     Dm7Dm7
We flee the earth and face our harsh reality
 FF       E minor 7Em7      Dm7Dm7     E minor 7Em7
Will death be low mist that hangs on the sea?
 Am7Am7    Dm7Dm7
We run from evil tongues
 E minor 7Em7       Dm7Dm7
Rash judgements, selfish men
 FF      E minor 7Em7      Dm7Dm7  E minor 7Em7
Never to be seen on these shores again
    Am7Am7   Dm7Dm7
As we sail into ocean size
E minor 7Em7      Dm7Dm7
And lose sight of land
 FF     E minor 7Em7    Dm7Dm7     E minor 7Em7
Face of contentment around in the air
   Am7Am7     Dm7Dm7     E minor 7Em7
We're off now to seek all our fortunes
Dm7Dm7     FF  E minor 7Em7  DmDm
To the land of our dreams

🤘 Instrumental:
|DmDm  Bb/DBb/D |G minorGm  FF C majorC |


🤘 Verse 3:
 DmDm     Bb/DBb/D      G minorGm    FF  C majorC
Riding the waves and the storm is upon us
   DmDm       Bb/DBb/D
The winds lash the sails
     G minorGm       FF  C majorC
But the ropes keep them tight
DmDm     Bb/DBb/D    G minorGm      FF  C majorC
Off in the distance a dark cloud approa-ching
 DmDm     Bb/DBb/D     G minorGm     FF
None could imagine what there was to come


🤘 Verse 4:
 C majorC      DmDm      Bb majorBb
No, there's no-one going back
       FF       C majorC
No, there's not a second chance
     DmDm      Bb majorBb
As we strap onto the side
      FF         C majorC
We pray to God that we won't die


🤘 Verse 5:
    DmDm    Bb/DBb/D
As we ride the rough seas
    G minorGm      FF   C majorC
As we soak from the ocean waves
DmDm       Bb/DBb/D
I just hope for all our lives
   G minorGm       FF  C majorC
And pray that I survive
 DmDm       Bb/DBb/D     G minorGm    FF  C majorC
Four ships are lost in the stormy condi--tions
   DmDm      Bb/DBb/D
The spirits of the sunken crews
    G minorGm      DmDm
Their phantoms follow us


🤘 Verse 6:
 C majorC   DmDm         Bb majorBb
Spirits sails, they drive us on
      FF       C majorC
Through the all-consuming waves
     DmDm     Bb majorBb
Cold mortality, no weapon
       FF      C majorC
Against these ever raging seas


🤘 Instrumental:
|D5D5  Bb5Bb5 |G5G5  C5C5 |D5D5  Bb5Bb5 |G5G5  A5A5 |


🤘 Verse 7:
 DmDm       Bb/DBb/D    G minorGm      FF   C majorC
Four leagues and ten and we hit storms again
  DmDm       Bb/DBb/D    G minorGm      FF  C majorC
We just can't get away from the eye of the storm
   DmDm        Bb/DBb/D
The birds outsoar the raging storm
  G minorGm      FF  C majorC
But we cannot escape it
 DmDm         Bb/DBb/D
Abandoned earth, that we now crave
  G minorGm        DmDm
Is many leagues from save


🤘 Verse 8:
    DmDm        Bb majorBb
Holding on for our dear lives
      FF      C majorC
And we're praying once again
    DmDm       Bb majorBb
Rotten luck or just jonahed?
     FF      C majorC
The talisman is in my hand


🤘 Instrumental:
|D5D5  Bb5Bb5 |G5G5  A5A5 | 2x

|A5A5  Bb5Bb5 |C5C5  D5D5 | 4x


🤘 Verse 9:
DmDm    FF           C majorC
 Limbs fatigue, trembling with cold
     G+G         DmDm
Blinded from the sea spray salt
     FF        C majorC
Clasping anything we can hold
     G+G      DmDm
Heaven's rain upon us falls
    FF       C majorC
Twenty days without a meal
      G+G         DmDm
And ten without fresh water still
      FF       C majorC
Those that didn't die in storms
      G+G
The scurvy rest did slaughter


🤘 Instrumental:
|A5A5  Bb5Bb5 |C5C5  D5D5 | 4x


🤘 Chorus:
 DmDm  FF    C majorC   G+G
West--ward the tide
 DmDm  FF    C majorC   G+G
West--ward we sail on
 DmDm  FF    C majorC   G+G
West--ward the tide
 DmDm  FF   C majorC    G+G
Sail by the talisman


🤘 Instrumental:
|E5E5   G5G5 | 8x


🤘 Solo:
|E5E5   G5G5 |E5E5   A5A5 G5G5 | 4x

|G5G5  A5A5 |


🤘 Instrumental:
|E5E5 |E5E5 |E5E5 |E5E5 | 2x

|G5G5  A5A5 |


🤘 Verse 10:
DmDm   FF        C majorC
 We approach the other side
    G+G        DmDm
Of the ocean with the tide
    FF       C majorC
In our favour just for once
     G+G        DmDm
Welcome greeting our new land
   FF       C majorC
The elation in our hearts
    G+G        DmDm
The excitement in our veins
    FF        C majorC
As we sail towards the coastline
    G+G
Of our golden promised land


🤘 Instrumental:
|D5D5  Bb5Bb5 |G5G5  A5A5 | 2x

|A5A5  Bb5Bb5 |C5C5  D5D5 | 4x


🤘 Verse 11:
    DmDm       Bb majorBb
Weary limbs fatigued away
    FF        C majorC
I have no life left in me
      DmDm
No more strength
      Bb majorBb
No nothing left to give
   FF        C majorC
Must find the will to live
    DmDm          Bb majorBb
Never thought that we could make it
    FF         C majorC
Truly sight of shores divine
   DmDm      Bb majorBb
The sickness I am dying from
    FF           C majorC
Never wanted it to end this way


🤘 Chorus:
 DmDm  FF    C majorC   G+G
West--ward the tide
 DmDm  FF    C majorC   G+G
West--ward we sail on
 DmDm  FF    C majorC   G+G
West--ward the tide
 DmDm  FF   C majorC    G+G
Sail by the talisman
 DmDm  FF    C majorC   G+G
West--ward the tide
 DmDm  FF    C majorC   G+G
West--ward we sail on
 DmDm  FF    C majorC   G+G
West--ward the tide
 DmDm  FF   C majorC    G+G
Sail by the talisman


🤘 Outro:
|DmDm |DmDm |DmDm |

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