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  |