PROCOL HARUM - "a salty dog" Tablature

Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:49:55 -0500
From: Andrew Rogers <rogers@hi.com>
Subject: ./p/procol_harum/a_salty_dog.tab


"A Salty Dog"
(G. Brooker - K. Reid)

Intro:

strings (arranged for guitar):

Db-5 Csus4 C Cm7 Bbsus4 Bb
|----------------|----------------|----------------|---------------|
|--8---8---8---8-|--8---8---8---8-|--8---8---8---8-|-6---6---6---6-|
|-10--10--10--10-|-10--10---9---9-|--8---8---8---8-|-8---8---7---7-|
|-11--11--11--11-|-10--10--10--10-|--8---8---8---8-|-8---8---8---8-|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|---------------|
|--9---9---9---9-|--8---8---8---8-|--8---8---8---8-|-6---6---6---6-|

Verse 1:

Db-5 Csus4 C
"All hands on deck we've run afloat"
Cm7 Bbsus4 Bb
I heard the captain cry
Fm/Ab /G Ab/F /Eb
Explore the ship replace the cook
Db-5 E6
Let no one leave alive

B/F# F#
Across the straits around the horn
B Bmaj7 B7
How far can sailors fly
E Em6/G
A twisted path our tortured course
B/F# F#sus4 F#
And no one left alive

Verse 2:

We sailed for parts unknown to man
Where ships crawl home to die
No lofty peak nor fortress bold
Could match our captain's eyes

Upon the seven seasick days
We made out for the coast
The sand so white and sea so blue
No mortal place at all

Break:

strings/piano (arranged for guitar):

B Ddim
v v v v v v v v
|-11--------------------|-4-----7-----6-----7--|
|-12----12--------------|-3-----6-----6-----6--|
|-11-11-11----10----11--|-4-----7-----7-----7--|
|-13----13-13-13----13--|-0-----0-----0-----0--|
|-14----14----14----14--|----------------------|
|-----------------------|----------------------|

F# Adim F#dim
v v v v v v v v
|--9----6--------------|-------------------2--|
|-11----7--------------|-4-----------6-----4--|
|-11-11-6--6--5-----6--|-5-----------5-----2--|
|-11----8-----8-----8--|-4-----------7-----4--|
|--9----9-----9-----9--|-0-----------0-----3--|
|----------------------|-------------------2--|


Verse 3:

We fired the gun and burned the mast
And rode from ship to shore
The captain cried, we sailors wept
Our tears were tears of joy

How many moons and many Junes
Have passed since we made land
A salty dog, a seaman's log
Your witness my own hand

[repeat string/piano break; end on Db-5 w/seagulls]


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers