This Is The Sea Live chords by The Waterboys

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Performance: Athens 21/11/2019

Key: C

Play the chords Fmaj7/G and C with pinky finger on the 3rd fret of high e string.
The almost constant G note gives the song its mellow feel.




🎸 Verse 1:
Fmaj7/G          C
These things you keep
                      Fmaj7
You better throw them away
                     C
You wanna Tturn your back
                  Fmaj7/G
On your soulless days
               C
Once you were tethered
            Fmaj7/G
Now you are free
G              Dm
Once you were tethered
             G
Now you are free

🎸 Chorus:
G            Dm
That was the river (pause)
             C
This is the sea


🎸 Verse 2:
Fmaj7/G            C
If you're feeling weary
                     Fmaj7/G
Maybe been alone too long
                     C
Or else you've been suffering from
                           Fmaj7/G
A few too many plans that have gone wrong

                     C
And you're trying to remember
                         Fmaj7/G
How fine your life used to be
G                            Dm
Running around banging your drum
                           G
Like it's nineteen-seventy-three


🎸 Chorus:
 G                  Dm
Well that was the river (pause)
             C
This is the sea


🎸 Verse 3:
Fmaj7/G             C
You say you've got trouble
                   Fmaj7/G
You say you've got pain
                               C
You say you've got nothin' to hold on to
                               Fmaj7/G
Nothing to trust, nothing but chains

                          C
You've been scouring your conscience
                       Fmaj7/G
And raking through your memory
G              Dm
Scouring your conscience
                       G
And raking through your memory


🎸 Chorus:
G                  Dm
But that was the river (pause)
            C
This is the sea


🎸 Verse 4:
Fmaj7/G        C
I can see you wavering
                 Fmaj7/G
As you try to decide
                         C
You've got a war in your head
                      Fmaj7/G
And it's tearing you up inside
                      C
You're trying to make sense
                             Fmaj7/G
Of something that you just don't see
G                     Dm
You're trying to make sense now
                               G
And you know you once held the key


🎸 Chorus:
G                  Dm
But that was the river (pause)
             C
This is the sea


🎸 Verse 5:
Fmaj7/G               C
Now I hear there's a train
                     Fmaj7/G
It's coming down the line
                  C
It's yours if you hurry
                        Fmaj7/G
You've got still enough time
                            C
'cause you've already got a ticket
                  Fmaj7/G
And you paid your fee

G                 Dm
You already got a ticket
                      G
You already paid your fee


🎸 Chorus:
G              Dm
That was the river (pause)
             C
This is the sea