Chords with lyrics
Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)
Gm C Gm C
The milkmoons dwell in their quiet shells
Gm C Dm Dm
Where they fell from the heaven
Gm C Gm C
Two pearl fishermen hold their breath again
Gm C Dm Dm
Fight to the death again for the same prize
Dm Gm C Gm
Oh my brother, one of us loses
Dm G Gm C
One must drown and the other she chooses
Gm C Gm C
The jade of the blue offers diamonds to you
Gm C Dm Dm
But you find it's not true when the sun sets
Gm C
You dive far below
Gm C
Where the sun doesn't go
Gm C
Where your brother won't know
Dm Dm
And you hear her saying:
Dm Gm C Gm
"Oh my lover, now that you've found me
Dm G Gm C
Now your brother is bound to be drowned
Dm Gm C Gm
I don't know why you'd feud over me
Dm G Gm C
All those pearls lay asleep on the sea bed"
Dm G Dm G Dm G Dm Gm C Gm Dm G Gm C
Gm C
The pearl in his hand
Gm C
She's just a grain of sand
Gm C
She's dressed up as snow
Dm Dm
In the moonlight
Gm C
She's porcelain
Gm C
On his sallow skin
Gm C
He's been taken in
Dm Dm
By illusion
Dm Gm C Gm
Oh my brother, we're both of us losers
Dm G Gm C
I don't know why she ever did choose us
Dm Gm C Gm
To call one her lover and bury the other
Dm G Gm C
So I'll hold my breath 'til the story is over
Dm G Dm G Dm G (fade out)
(Play the whole song with plucking between chords- it fills it out nicely much like in the original :)
