Calypso

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  • TAB FOR INTRO AND FIRST VERSE:
     
    [The second and third verses are slightly different; if you want to get it
  • exactly right, just listen to the recording.]
    [An equal sign (=) is a hammer-on; *2 means quickly hammer-on from 0 to 2.]
    [Accents are on the 1st, 4th, and 7th eighth notes of each measure; those are
  • usually played by the thumb. (In the recording, you can barely even hear
    the non-accented notes.)]
    [Actually in G; capo at the 3rd fret.]
  •  
    E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4
    E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
  • B --0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-------|--0-----0-----0-|
    G ----1-----1-----|----2-----2-----|----1-----1-----|----2-----2-----|
    D ----------------|------0---------|2-----------0=2-|0-----------0---|
  • A ------2---------|2-----------2---|------2---------|------2---------|
    E 0-----------0---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
  •  
    E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4
    E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
  • B --------------0-|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|
    G ------1---1-----|----2-----2-----|----1-----1-----|----2-----2-----|
    D 0=2--------*2---|0-----------0---|----------------|------0---------|
  • A ----------------|------2---------|------2---------|2-----------2---|
    E ----------------|----------------|0-----------0---|----------------|
    ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
  •  
    E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4
    E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
  • B --0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-------|--0-----0-----0-|
    G ----1-----1-----|----2-----2-----|----1-----1-----|----2-----2-----|
    D ----------------|------0---------|2-----------0=2-|0-----------0---|
  • A ------2---------|2-----------2---|------2---------|------2---------|
    E 0-----------0---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
  • My name is Calypso and I have lived alone
     
    E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4
  • E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    B ----0-----0-----|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|
    G ------1---------|----2-----2-----|----1-----1-----|----2-----2-----|
  • D 0=2---------0=2-|0-----------0---|----------------|------0---------|
    A ----------------|------2---------|------2---------|2-----------2---|
    E ----------------|----------------|0-----------0---|----------------|
  • ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
    I live on an island and I 'waken to the dawn
     
  • A A7/6sus4 A A7/6sus4
    E --0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|
    B ----2-----2-----|----3-----3-----|----2-----2-----|----3-----3-----|
  • G ------------2---|------0---------|------------2---|------0---------|
    D ------2---------|4-----------4---|------2---------|4-----------4---|
    A 0---------------|----------------|0---------------|----------------|
  • E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
    A long time ago, I watched him struggle with the sea
  •  
    E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4
    E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
  • B --0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-------|--0-----0-----0-|
    G ----1-----1-----|----2-----2-----|----1-----1-----|----2-----2-----|
    D ----------------|------0---------|2-----------0=2-|0-----------0---|
  • A ------2---------|2-----------2---|------2---------|------2---------|
    E 0-----------0---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
  • I knew that he was drowning and I brought him in to me
     
    Asus4 Asus4 A(4) A(4)
  • E --0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|--------0-------|
    B ----3-----3-----|----3-----3-----|----2-----2-----|----2-----2-----|
    G ----------------|------2---------|------------2---|------2---------|
  • D ------0-----2---|0-----------0---|------0---------|0=2---------2---|
    A 0---------------|----------------|0---------------|----------------|
    E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
  • ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
    Now today come mor - ning light,
     
  • C Cmaj7 F#m7(4) F#m7(4)
    E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    B --1-----1-----1-|--0-----0-------|----------------|----------------|
  • G ----0-----0-----|----0-----0-----|----2-----2-----|----------2-----|
    D ------2-----2---|------2---------|----------------|------2---------|
    A 3---------------|3---------------|-----*2---------|0=2---------2---|
  • E ----------------|------------0---|2-----------0=2-|----------------|
    ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
    he sails away; Af - ter one last
  •  
    E E7sus4 E E7sus4
    E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
  • B --0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|--0-----0-----0-|
    G ----1-----1-----|----2-----2-----|----1-----1-----|----2-----2-----|
    D ------------2---|------0---------|------------2---|------0---------|
  • A ------2---------|2-----------2---|------2---------|2-----------2---|
    E 0---------------|----------------|0---------------|----------------|
    ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
  • night, I let him go.
     
    LYRICS AND CHORDS:
  •  
    [It's a judgement call as to whether the E7's are actually E's or E7's.
    And it doesn't really matter.]
  • [For the "I let him go" parts at the ends of the verses, play as many
    E - E7sus4 sequences as is necessary, using the picking pattern from
    the last two measures of the first verse.]
  • [Capo 3.]
     
    E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4
  • [intro]
     
    E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4
  • My name is Calypso, and I have lived alone
    E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4
    I live on an island, and I 'waken to the dawn
  • A A7/6sus4 A A7/6sus4
    Long time ago, I watched him struggle with the sea
    E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4
  • I knew that he was drowning, and I brought him in to me
    Asus4 Asus4 A(4) A(4)
    Now today, come morning light
  • C Cmaj7 F#m7(4) F#m7(4) E E7sus4 E E7sus4
    He sails away; after one last night, I let him go
     
  • My name is Calypso; my garden overflows
    Thick and wild and hidden is the sweetness there that grows
    My hair, it blows long as I sing into the wind
  • I tell of nights where I could taste the salt on his skin
    Salt of the waves and of tears
    And though he pulled away, I kept him here for years
  • Now I let him go
     
    [Guitar solo: same chords as one verse, but for all the E - E7sus4 parts,
  • just play it like the "I let him go" parts at the end of the verses.]
     
    My name is Calypso; I have let him go
  • In the dawn he sails away to be gone forever more
    And the waves will take him in again, but he'll know their ways know
    I will stand upon the shore with a clean heart and my song in the wind
  • The sand will sting my feet and the sky will burn
    It's a lonely time ahead; I do not ask him to return; I let him go
    I let him go
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