The Pogues - Lorelei

      
 
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 #From: Elizabeth B. Myers <ebmyers@mailbox.syr.edu>
 #To: weis0010@gold.tc.umn.edu
 #Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 17:39:11 -0400 (EDT)
 #Subject: re: lorelei.crd
 #Try these changes. I play it along with the album and it sounds right.
 #The intro progression is somewhat different, but I think it's just an
 #E-A-B-A kind of thing. Let me know if you think this is better.
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 #Liz Myers
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     E                              
 You told me tales of love and glory
 A                                
 Same old sad song, same old story
 E             C#m    
 Sirens sing a lullaby
     G#m              B      
 And no one knows but Lorelei
 Castles out of fairy tales
 Timbers shiver where once there sailed
 A lovesick man who caught her eye
 And no one knew but Lorelei
         F#m                    
 CHORUS: River, river have mercy
         B              
 Take me down to the sea
     F#m                       
 For if I perish on these rocks
    B                    
 My love no more I'll see
 I've thought of you in far-off places
 Puzzled over lipstick traces
 So help me God, I will not try
 And then I think of Lorelei
 I've traveled far and wandered wide
 An old photograph of you beside me
 Old Man River seems so shy (?)
 And he remembers Lorelei
 CHORUS
 If I should float upon this stream
 And see you in my madman's dream
 I'd sink into your troubled eyes
 And none would know save Lorelei
 CHORUS: Oh, river river river have mercy...
 But if my ship which sails tomorrow
 Should crash against these rocks, my sorrows
 I will drown, before I die
 It's you I'll see, not Lorelei
     E 
 I-I-I
 Outro: E A2 (repeat & end on E)