Swim Until You Can't See Land Acoustic chords by Frightened Rabbit

Chords with lyrics

SWIM UNTIL YOU CAN'T SEE LAND (ACOUSTIC) - Frightened Rabbit
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Tabbed by: Sam Rayner
Site: samrayner.com

This is the acoustic version of Swim played by Scott Hutchison
for offthebeatentracks.tv: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5YxtPpMMHs

I've tabbed it so it can be played with standard tuning and chords
but it sounds much better if you tune to CGDGBE and follow Scott's
versions of the chords.

N.B. Simple chord names (e.g. D MajorD) are used for simplicity but the
fingerings differ between verse and chorus! Refer to the guide below
if you want to match Scott's sound.

Awesome song. Enjoy!

Sam

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     Chord Guide
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VERSE:

  G+G  D MajorD  E minorEm C majorC  D MajorD  C majorC
E MajorE|--7---1---0---0---1---0--|
BB|--8---2---3---1---2---1--|
G+G|--7---1---0---0---1---0--|
D MajorD|--0---0---0---2---0---2--|
G+G|--0---0---0---0---0---0--|
C majorC|--7---1---4---0---1---0--|

CHORUS:

  G+G C5C5 G+G     D MajorD  C majorC
E MajorE|--x--x---x--   --x---x--|
BB|--8--8---8--   --10--8--|
G+G|--0--0---0-- X3  --0---9--|
D MajorD|--0--10--9--   --0---10-|
G+G|--0--0---0--   --12--0--|
C majorC|--7--0---0--   --11--7--|

BRIDGE - Same as chorus but add:

E MajorE|----------------------|
BB|--12--10---8----------|
G+G|----------------------|
D MajorD|--------------10---9--|
G+G|----------------------|
C majorC|----------------------|

END:

  D MajorD  C majorC     G+G
E MajorE|--x---x---   --x--|
BB|--10--8---   --8--|
G+G|--0---9---   --0--|
D MajorD|--0---10-- X4 --0--|
G+G|--12--0---   --0--|
C majorC|--11--7---   --7--|

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G+G  D MajorD      E minorEm    C majorC    D MajorD        C majorC
We salute at the threshold of the North Sea in my mind
G+G    D MajorD    E minorEm       C majorC    D MajorD        C majorC
And the nautical board-man that drove me here to face the tide and
G+G     C5C5 G+G G MajorG     C5C5 G+G G MajorG     C5C5 G+G G MajorG     C5C5
Swim      I swim      I swim


G+G    D MajorD     E minorEm   C majorC     D MajorD       C majorC
Dip the toe in the ocean. Oh how it hardens and it numbs
    G+G    D MajorD    E minorEm    C majorC  D MajorD           C majorC
And the rest of me is a burgeoned man built to collapse into crumbs
    G+G  D MajorD    E minorEm  C majorC   D MajorD         C majorC
And if I hadn't come down to the coast to disappear
G+G     D MajorD     E minorEm    C majorC   D MajorD          C majorC
I may have died in a land-slide of the rocks, the hopes and fears.


  G+G            C5C5 G+G
So swim until you can't see land   |
G+G            C5C5 G+G     |
Swim until you can't see land     |
G+G            C5C5 G+G     | X2
Swim until you can't see land     |
  D MajorD          C majorC      |
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand? |


G+G  D MajorD  E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD  C majorC (X2)


G+G    D MajorD  E minorEm  C majorC   D MajorD     C majorC
Up to my knees now, do I wait? Do I dive?
G+G      D MajorD    E minorEm     C majorC       D MajorD           C majorC
The sea has seen my like before though it's my first and perhaps last time.
G+G     D MajorD  E minorEm    C majorC       D MajorD        C majorC
Let's call me a baptist, call this the drowning of the past
G+G   D MajorD      E minorEm    C majorC    D MajorD      C majorC
She's there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back


  G+G            C5C5 G+G
So swim until you can't see land   |
G+G            C5C5 G+G     |
Swim until you can't see land     |
G+G            C5C5 G+G     | X2
Swim until you can't see land     |
  D MajorD          C majorC      |
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand? |


BRIDGE (X2)


G+G    D MajorD    E minorEm     C majorC     D MajorD        C majorC
Now the water's taller than me and the land is a marker line
G+G   D MajorD    E minorEm  C majorC    D MajorD        C majorC
All I am is a body adrift in water, salt and sky


  G+G            C5C5 G+G
So swim until you can't see land   |
G+G            C5C5 G+G     |
Swim until you can't see land     |
G+G            C5C5 G+G     | X2
Swim until you can't see land     |
  D MajorD          C majorC      |
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand? |


  D MajorD          C majorC
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?
  D MajorD          C majorC
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?
  D MajorD          C majorC
Are you a man, are you a bag of sand?
  D MajorD          C majorC   G+G