Shiver Me Timbers chords by Tom Waits

id  for  ; Wed, 2 Mar 1994 13:34:08 +0100


Here's Tom Waits' "shiver me timbers" from the album "the heart of saturday
night" from 1974:

chords used in this song:

verse:
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  Gb       Cb/Db          Ebm7          Ab7        Abm9/Gb       Db7
______     x_x___        x_____       ______       xx____      x_____
||||||     ||||||    6th |*|*|*   4th *|||**   4th ||***|  4th |*|*|*
*|||**     |||||*        ||||*|       |||*||       ||||||      ||||||
|||*||     ||||||        ||*|||       |**|||       |||||*      ||*|*|
|**|||     |*|**|        ||||||       ||||||       ||||||      ||||||

  D7/Bb      Gb/Cb        Ab9
 xxo___     x_____      __x___
 ||||*|     ||||||   4th*|||*|
 |||||*     ||||**      |||*||
 |||*||     |||*||      |*|||*
            |**|||


Shiver Me Timbers       (T.Waits)
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Gb             Cb/Db
I'm ..
Gb             Ebm7
leaving ..
Gb           Ab7
my ..
       Abm9/Gb       Db7
but ..
          Gb              Cb/Db
where ..
     Gb            Ebm7
on a ..
   Gb             Ab7
my ..
     Abm9/Gb  Db7  Gb
and ..

verse


-----    Ebm7
/Now ..
         D7/Bb
 and ..
     Gb/Cb       Ab9
 I'm ..

 Old ..
              Db7sus4   Db7
 he ..

{repeat chords as above}

 So ..
 I'm ..
 Blue ..
 I'm ..
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so ..
tell ..
'cause ..
by ..
Nobody ..
I ..
shiver ..
as ..

------
/Now ........


------

I'm ..
leaving ..
my ..
but ..
where ..
on ..
shiver ..
as ..

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Johan Kristian Sveen
University of Oslo, Norway
Dept. of Mechanics