The Talisman chords by Iron Maiden

Key: Dm

🤘 Intro:

|Dm7 |C | 2x



🤘 Verse 1:
     Dm7
When I stand and look about the port
   C
And contemplate my life
    Dm7           C
Will I ever see my countrymen again?
    Dm7
As the captain calls us on the deck
  C6
I take my things and walk
    Dm7
To the harbour side
            Am  Asus4
I glance back one last time

🤘 Verse 2:
 Am7    Dm7      Em7        Dm7
Fleeing our nation, our problems we leave behind
 F      Em7     Dm7     Em7
Ships by the tenfold sail out on the tide
     Am7     Dm7     Em7    Dm7
We are pleased to be out and embracing the open sea
 F       Em7     Dm7       Em7
Free from our troubles and more free from thee
 Am7   Dm7     Em7   Dm7
Inheritors unfulfilled reason behind us
 F       Em7     Dm7    Em7
We flee from what is not, what is will be
 Am7    Dm7      Em7     Dm7
We flee the earth and face our harsh reality
 F       Em7      Dm7     Em7
Will death be low mist that hangs on the sea?
 Am7    Dm7
We run from evil tongues
 Em7       Dm7
Rash judgements, selfish men
 F      Em7      Dm7  Em7
Never to be seen on these shores again
    Am7   Dm7
As we sail into ocean size
Em7      Dm7
And lose sight of land
 F     Em7    Dm7     Em7
Face of contentment around in the air
   Am7     Dm7     Em7
We're off now to seek all our fortunes
Dm7     F  Em7  Dm
To the land of our dreams


🤘 Instrumental:
|Dm  Bb/D |Gm  F C |


🤘 Verse 3:
 Dm     Bb/D      Gm    F  C
Riding the waves and the storm is upon us
   Dm       Bb/D
The winds lash the sails
     Gm       F  C
But the ropes keep them tight
Dm     Bb/D    Gm      F  C
Off in the distance a dark cloud approa-ching
 Dm     Bb/D     Gm     F
None could imagine what there was to come


🤘 Verse 4:
 C      Dm      Bb
No, there's no-one going back
       F       C
No, there's not a second chance
     Dm      Bb
As we strap onto the side
      F         C
We pray to God that we won't die


🤘 Verse 5:
    Dm    Bb/D
As we ride the rough seas
    Gm      F   C
As we soak from the ocean waves
Dm       Bb/D
I just hope for all our lives
   Gm       F  C
And pray that I survive
 Dm       Bb/D     Gm    F  C
Four ships are lost in the stormy condi--tions
   Dm      Bb/D
The spirits of the sunken crews
    Gm      Dm
Their phantoms follow us


🤘 Verse 6:
 C   Dm         Bb
Spirits sails, they drive us on
      F       C
Through the all-consuming waves
     Dm     Bb
Cold mortality, no weapon
       F      C
Against these ever raging seas


🤘 Instrumental:
|D5  Bb5 |G5  C5 |D5  Bb5 |G5  A5 |


🤘 Verse 7:
 Dm       Bb/D    Gm      F   C
Four leagues and ten and we hit storms again
  Dm       Bb/D    Gm      F  C
We just can't get away from the eye of the storm
   Dm        Bb/D
The birds outsoar the raging storm
  Gm      F  C
But we cannot escape it
 Dm         Bb/D
Abandoned earth, that we now crave
  Gm        Dm
Is many leagues from save


🤘 Verse 8:
    Dm        Bb
Holding on for our dear lives
      F      C
And we're praying once again
    Dm       Bb
Rotten luck or just jonahed?
     F      C
The talisman is in my hand


🤘 Instrumental:
|D5  Bb5 |G5  A5 | 2x

|A5  Bb5 |C5  D5 | 4x


🤘 Verse 9:
Dm    F           C
 Limbs fatigue, trembling with cold
     G         Dm
Blinded from the sea spray salt
     F        C
Clasping anything we can hold
     G      Dm
Heaven's rain upon us falls
    F       C
Twenty days without a meal
      G         Dm
And ten without fresh water still
      F       C
Those that didn't die in storms
      G
The scurvy rest did slaughter


🤘 Instrumental:
|A5  Bb5 |C5  D5 | 4x


🤘 Chorus:
 Dm  F    C   G
West--ward the tide
 Dm  F    C   G
West--ward we sail on
 Dm  F    C   G
West--ward the tide
 Dm  F   C    G
Sail by the talisman


🤘 Instrumental:
|E5   G5 | 8x


🤘 Solo:
|E5   G5 |E5   A5 G5 | 4x

|G5  A5 |


🤘 Instrumental:
|E5 |E5 |E5 |E5 | 2x

|G5  A5 |


🤘 Verse 10:
Dm   F        C
 We approach the other side
    G        Dm
Of the ocean with the tide
    F       C
In our favour just for once
     G        Dm
Welcome greeting our new land
   F       C
The elation in our hearts
    G        Dm
The excitement in our veins
    F        C
As we sail towards the coastline
    G
Of our golden promised land


🤘 Instrumental:
|D5  Bb5 |G5  A5 | 2x

|A5  Bb5 |C5  D5 | 4x


🤘 Verse 11:
    Dm       Bb
Weary limbs fatigued away
    F        C
I have no life left in me
      Dm
No more strength
      Bb
No nothing left to give
   F        C
Must find the will to live
    Dm          Bb
Never thought that we could make it
    F         C
Truly sight of shores divine
   Dm      Bb
The sickness I am dying from
    F           C
Never wanted it to end this way


🤘 Chorus:
 Dm  F    C   G
West--ward the tide
 Dm  F    C   G
West--ward we sail on
 Dm  F    C   G
West--ward the tide
 Dm  F   C    G
Sail by the talisman
 Dm  F    C   G
West--ward the tide
 Dm  F    C   G
West--ward we sail on
 Dm  F    C   G
West--ward the tide
 Dm  F   C    G
Sail by the talisman


🤘 Outro:
|Dm |Dm |Dm |