Chords for C.W. Stoneking - On A Desert Isle

_ _ _ _ _ _ How you doing?
When I sit here I can hardly bring myself to play music because I'm lost in the scenery of this beautiful 14 fret stylo from National Guitars.
Look at this.
I think about old Herman Melville talking about the sleepiest, dreamiest of sunsets over the Yellow Sea.
_ And that's why I'm going to sing you this tune from my record.
It's called On the Desert Isle.
_ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [C] _ [G] I drifted in the doldrums almost [B] [Dm] dead.
_ [Em] Oh, we did what [G] we said.
_ [G] With a [C] useless [Em] bag hanging above my head.
[Dm] Not a breath to [G] breathe [C] till my day is.
_ [G] _ [C] Then lifting up my sparklers on Buckley's coast.
[E] I [Bm] seen something [C] over the way.
_ _ _ I brought my [F] things [C] and I left my boat.
[Dm] And [C] that's why I'm out on my way.
_ _ _ [E] _
On the [F] desert isle, [C] _ here I [F] sing.
[C] Only your lips, _ soft and true.
[D] Got no shirt or shoes upon my feet.
[E]
I [G] didn't belong _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [F] _ _ _ to my [E] fate.
I'm happy just to [D] dream and sing.
[C] _
I'm living like [D] a marigold tree.
[G] _ _ [B]
Out on a desert [A] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ crusade.
And palm [Dm] trees bend and sway.
A rhubarb twig [C] by my feet.
[G] _ [C] And a breeze blows [F] soft upon the cold [C] grass.
_ [Dm] Plays [B] old melodies. _ _
_ [G] _ [C] And the [G] sun's [F] breaking in a [Em] pink sky. [Dm] My [G] eyes. _
_ _ [C] Where the stars cast a [F] twinkling [C] veil on high.
[Dm] Where [G] I sleep [C] at night.
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ And one morning the [E] sun _ [C] _
[G] has beset my [C] sea.
I haunt and wail [D] as I walk.
Find no [G] remnants at paradise.
[C] What lay by me was changed.
I'm from the land.
From the only [Dm] comforts of reach I sing [C] this song.
[F] Water.
[Em] A wonderous [C] strain.
Where [D] from the gloom there came the sound of crying in the night.
[D]
My [E] blue-ruined [Am] eyes are no lies.
[G] A woman dragging us [D] out on that [Gm] small little tide.
[G] _ _ _
_ [Gm] All [F] the gentler nights.
[C] _ _ _
[E] Oh, [C] the young [G] lady.
_ [C] _
Tired of me.
_ [G] Trying to help to let her tip me. _
Out on a [C] beach.
I don't know. _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ [F] Oh, is me a crying baby.
I'm leaving nothing on my mind.
In a little [Db] gas tank.
[D] Yes.
_ _ [G]
Out on a beach.
_ [C] _ [A] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ And there it is.
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