1986 A Merman I Should Turn To Be chords by Jimi Hendrix

Tuned half step down
Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb

Intro:
Am D Am D Am D Am D C

D                 Db
Hurray, I awake from yesterday  Alive, but the war is here to stay
 C
So my love, Catherina and me,
 B
decide to take our last walk through the noise to the sea
Bb               A
Not to die but to reborn, away from lands so battered and torn
 Am    D   Am D C
Forever, forever
 D
Oh say, can you see it's really such a mess
  Db
 Every inch of Earth is a fighting nest
    C
Giant pencil and lipstick tube shaped things,
  B
Continue to rain and cause screaming pain
      Bb
And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red as our
 A                       Am  D    Am  D
feet find the sand, and the sea is straight ahead, straight up ahead
   Dm           Am      C
Well it's too bad that our friends, can't be with us today
 Gm
Well it's too bad
  Dm        Am
The machine, that we built,
  C          Gm
would never save us', that's what they say

That's why they ain't coming with us today
             Dm           Am
And they also said it's impossible for a man to live and breathe under
        C
water,   forever, was their main complaint
 Gm
And they also threw this in my face, they said:
 Dm               Am
Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God,
 C                 Gm
and the grace of the King grace of the King Yeah, yeah

Dm Am C Gm Dm Am C Gm

 Dm
So my darling and I make love in the sand,
  Dbm
to salute the last moment ever on dry land
  C
Our machine, it has done its work, played its part well
      B
Without a scratch on our bodies and we bid it farewell
  Bb
Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile
  A
Before our heads go under we take a last look at the killing noise
 Am          D      Am     Am D...
Of the out of style, the out of style, out of style
  Db                  Cm
So down and down and down and down and down and down we go
  B                Bb
hurry my darling we mustn't be late for the show
  A                 Ab
Neptune champion games to an aqua world that's so very dear
 Gb                  A   C  G    A
right this way smiles a mermaid I can hear atlantis full of cheer
 Am D  Am         D   Am            D Am-D