The Boatman
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 96 10:45 SAT
From: [emailprotected] (Cooperacion Tecnica Sueca)
Subject: Tab: The Boatman by Levellers
The Boatman by The Levellers
>From the album Levelling the Land
verses:
If I could chose the life I please then I would be a boatman
2.If I could chose the life I please then I would be a rover
3.Well I wish I could chose the life I please, I am not a free man
RIFF once
On the canals and the rivers free no hasty words are spoken
2.and if the roads was not for me then I would chose another
3.Others rule my destiny but my will is never broken(to %)
RIFF once
My only law is the river breeze that takes me to the open seas
2.Mountains and the valleys deep where I would take this weary feet
If I could chose the life I please then I would be a boatman
2.If I could chose the life I please then I would be a rover
CODA:
RIFF once
But these things are so hard for me I cannot chose my own destiny-
And all things that I want to see are so unclean
%:
RIFF
I know some day I will be everything that I dreamed I'd be
And when I've lived the life I please then I will be a free man
Playing order:
Riff x2
Bridge
Riff x2
Bridge
Riff x2
Verse 1
Riff x2
Verse 2
Riff x2
Bridge
riff x2
Coda
riff x3
verse 3 (incl %)
Then the % part again and repeat the last line after a riff once
riff once
Confusing? Well, I did my best. Comments or corrections to
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Manuel Zanzi
UBV CHILE
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