The Net chords by Gordon Bok

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
A augmentedA

Verse:
             D MajorD   A augmentedA
My wings were blue in the ocean green
              D MajorD  A augmentedA
The prettiest thing you've ever seen
  E7E7         A augmentedA
The gurnet said to the catfish
           D MajorD    A augmentedA
Rose were my legs and rose my sides
                D MajorD     A augmentedA
And who would have thought as I roved the tide
     B minorBm
Where the red crab watched me scuttle and glide
    D MajorD         A augmentedA
I would come to dance in a net?

Verse:
              D MajorD     A augmentedA
The fisherman stands by the water and chuckles
            D MajorD      A augmentedA
Clams are his ears and limpets his knuckles
  E7E7         A augmentedA
The gurnet said to the catfish
           D MajorD        A augmentedA
The beard of a mussel droops from his chin
             D MajorD      A augmentedA
The scales of a mackerel cling to his skin
    B minorBm
And his eyes roll out and his eyes roll in
   D MajorD            A augmentedA
As he watches us dance in the net

Verse:
           D MajorD     A augmentedA
His eyes are hard as berries of kelp
               D MajorD    A augmentedA
But sweet is his daughter who comes to help
  E7E7         A augmentedA
The gurnet said to the catfish
               D MajorD     A augmentedA
They take the ropes in their lean brown hands
            D MajorD      A augmentedA
And haul us out on the shine of the sands
    B minorBm
And the girl she laughs as the fisherman stands
  D MajorD            A augmentedA
And watches us dance in the net

Bridge:
A augmentedA A7A7 D MajorD D7D7 G+G

Verse:
    C majorC            FF     C majorC
Let her hang up her clothes on a gooseberry bush
                  FF     C majorC
Where the waves say 'crush' and the foam says 'hush'
  G7G7         C majorC
The gurnet said to the catfish
           FF      C majorC
The surf is red with struggle and slaughter
               FF     C majorC
But somewhere on earth or in sky or in water
  DmDm
The scaly man and his long-legged daughter
   FF         C majorC
Will come to dance in a net

Instrumental:
C majorC   DmDm  G+G

Verse:
  C majorC          FF      C majorC
The fishes dance to the fisherman's tune
           FF      C majorC
The waters run to the pull of the moon
    G7G7         C majorC
And the gurnet said to the catfish
              FF      C majorC
The air and the sand at the edge of the tide
             FF     C majorC
The fisherman's daughter, dancing in pride
     DmDm
With her rosy legs and her rosy side
  FF            C majorC
Is less than a fish in the net

Bridge:
C majorC G+G A minorAm A7A7

Verse:
  D MajorD           G+G     D MajorD
For somewhere, glaring in wastes of space
               G+G   D MajorD
There's a terrible eye in an empty face
  A7A7         D MajorD
The gurnet said to the catfish
              G+G       D MajorD
And round and round in the spell of that stare
             G+G     D MajorD
Flashing and slashing and biting the snare
  E minorEm
Go all the glittering shoals of the air
G+G            D MajorD
Dancing like fish in the net

Verse:
          G+G     D MajorD
So somebody sits in space and chuckles
              G+G     D MajorD
With hair like a comet and stars for knuckles
  A7A7         D MajorD
The gurnet said to the catfish
            G+G    D MajorD
And glimmer of side and swirl of fin
            G+G     D MajorD
His arms are huge as he hauls them in
    E minorEm
And his teeth are sharks in a mile wide grin
   G+G             D MajorD
As he watches them dance in the net

Bridge:
D MajorD D7D7 G+G

Verse:
C majorC          FF    C majorC
There I'm going and there go you
          FF     C majorC
I with my wings of butterfly blue
  G7G7         C majorC
The gurnet said to the catfish
             FF      C majorC
The moon comes by and he swallows it whole
              FF      C majorC
And there is the girl with wings on her soul
  DmDm
And now it's the fisher, and the great eyes roll
   FF             C majorC
As he watches them dance in the net