Calypso chords by John Denver

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

Calypso
Words and Music by John Denver, 1975
Lyrics and chords are correct.

A augmentedA             A major 6A6
To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean
  Amaj7Amaj7         A augmentedA      Bm/ABm/A
To ride on the crest of a wild raging storm
  A augmentedA           A major 6A6
To work in the service of life and living
   Amaj7Amaj7     A augmentedA            Bm/ABm/A
In search of the answers to the questions unknown
    A augmentedA            A major 6A6
To be part of the movement and part of the growing
Amaj7Amaj7   A augmentedA       Em7/A (open for two bars)
Part of beginning to understand

CHORUS
D MajorD        A augmentedA
Aye Calypso the places you've been to
    D MajorD          A augmentedA
The things that you've shown us
   E MajorE      A augmentedA
The stories you tell
D MajorD        A augmentedA
Aye Calypso, I sing to your spirit
   D MajorD       A augmentedA      E7E7
The men who have served you so long and so well

       E MajorE        D MajorD   A augmentedA
Hi - dee - ay -- ee -  ooo------

      E MajorE      D MajorD    A augmentedA
do - dle - oh  --- do do do do do

       E MajorE     D MajorD   A augmentedA
do - dle - ay - ee ----------

      E MajorE       Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD  A augmentedA  D/AD/A  A augmentedA  D/AD/A
do-dle - ay  - ee.


     A augmentedA             A major 6A6
Like the dolphin who guides you, you bring us beside you
  Amaj7Amaj7           A augmentedA      Bm/ABm/A
To light up the darkness and show us the way
   A augmentedA             A major 6A6
For though we are strangers in your silent world
  Amaj7Amaj7     A augmentedA            Bm/ABm/A
To live on the land we must learn from the sea
    A augmentedA          A major 6A6
To be true as the tide and free as a wind swell
Amaj7Amaj7    A augmentedA         Em7/A (open for two bars)
Joyful and loving in letting it be

CHORUS
D MajorD        A augmentedA
Aye Calypso the places you've been to
    D MajorD          A augmentedA
The things that you've shown us
   E MajorE      A augmentedA
The stories you tell
D MajorD        A augmentedA
Aye Calypso, I sing to your spirit
   D MajorD       A augmentedA      E7E7
The men who have served you so long and so well

       E MajorE        D MajorD   A augmentedA
Hi - dee - ay -- ee -  ooo------

      E MajorE      D MajorD    A augmentedA
do - dle - oh  --- do do do do do

       E MajorE     D MajorD   A augmentedA
do - dle - ay - ee ----------

      E MajorE       Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD  A augmentedA  D/AD/A  A augmentedA  D/AD/A
do-dle - ay  - ee.


LAST CHORUS
D MajorD        A augmentedA
Aye Calypso the places you've been to
    D MajorD          A augmentedA
The things that you've shown us
   E MajorE      A augmentedA
The stories you tell
D MajorD        A augmentedA
Aye Calypso, I sing to your spirit
   D MajorD       A augmentedA      E7E7
The men who have served you so long and so well

       E MajorE   D MajorD C# minorC#m B minorBm A augmentedA    E MajorE
Hi - dee - ay -- ee -   hi-dee oh

   Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD   A augmentedA
oooo/oooo/ oooo/oooo/oooo/ooooooooooooooooooo
(repeat yodel once)

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