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Verse: (note that on the 'Live After Death' version, the guitars play
between D5 and E5, I think to make the song more interesting)
E5Hear the rime of the Ancient Mariner,
[Riff B]
see his eye as he stops one of three
E5Mesmerises one of the wedding guests -
Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea.
C5And the music plays on as the bride passes by
Caught by his spell and the Mariner tells his tale.
(* = I would suggest faking that little fill on the studio version)
D5DriE5ven south the the land of the snow and ice,
[Riff B]
to a place where nobody's been.
E5ThrC5ough the snow fog flies on the albatross, hailed in God's name,
hoping good luck it brings.
C5And the ship sails on, back to the north.
Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on.
Shanty A: (Murray is left channel, Smith is right channel) >----.
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(lots of E5 power chordage)
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The mariner kills the bird of good omen
His shipmates cry against what he's done
But when the fog clears they justify him
E5And make themselves a part of the crime.
C5SaiD5ling on and on and North across the
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sea... Sailing on and on and
The albatross begins with its vengeance
A terrible curse, a thirst has begun
His shipmates blame bad luck on the Mariner
About his neck the dead bird is hung.
And the curse goes on and on and on at sea.
And the curse goes on and on for them and me.
"Day after day, day after day we stuck nor breath nor motion.
As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.
Water water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink
Water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." (S.T.Coleridge)
(this entire section will be repeated again below with different words)
E5TheE5re, calls the mariner, there comes a ship over the
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E5But E5how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no
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See... Onward she comes...
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Onward she nears out of the sun...
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See... She has no crew...
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She has no life, wait but there's two
(Now repeat entire above pattern with these lyrics)
E5DeaE5th and she life in death, they throw their dice for the crew
E5She E5wins the mariner and he belongs to her now.
Csus2Then..A5. crew one by one, they drop down dead, two hundred men
Csus2She, sA5he life in death, she lets him live, her chosen one.
Now for some instrumental chords:
F#5 A5 E5 F5 G5 (Smith plays chords, Murray plays root-note triplets)
Play this part a total of four times (follow the left/right channels all
the way through to the ending C5 and Eb5 chords, then return to the
start) but the last time, skip the C5 and Eb5 and end on the little fill
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C#me:---------------------------------|
B:----------------------------5----|L (I may have tabbed Dave's part
G:--------------------------6------|E wrong.)
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