Shiver Me Timbers chords by Tom Waits

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

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