Sea Song

SEA SONG

written by ROBERT WYATT

recorded by Robert Wyatt - UK Virgin V2017 (1974)

published by Virgin Music

tablature for solo guitar by Weed

Notes

the song was originally recorded with keyboards accompaniment -

the instrumental part between the 1st and 2nd verse is not tabbed

(an extended play round the E7-5 chord), nor is the instrumental

section which follows the second verse to finish the piece (an

extended play round the chord of D)

nb the vocal starts on an E, and the E on the 2nd fret of the 4th

string (for example) can be played during bar 11 to help guide in

the vocal (as the melody is not obvious from the intro)

tied (held) notes represented by equals sign (=) (ie the following

note on the same string is not replayed) - as per the record, but

for guitar may need additional strums

Full Chords

string sequence: 654321 - chords in order of appearance - 2 versions

of Cm6 and Ebmaj7 are used - nb not all the notes are needed

Eb x65343 Cm6 567585 Am x02210 Bbmaj7 x23231

Key - Am (at least for the vocal parts)

Time - 2/2 (slow and melancholic)

[intro]

1. You look

different every time you come from the

foam crested brine, It's your skin shining

softly in the moon----------------light, Partly

fish partly porpoise partly ba------by sperm

whale Am I yours, are you mi------ine to

play with? Jok-----ing a-------part when you're

drunk you're ter----riffic, when you're drunk I love you

most-ly late at night, You're quite all right. But I

can't un--der-----stand the different you in the

morning when it's time to play at being

hu-mans for a while we

smile [extended keyboard break] 2. You'll be

different i-n the spring I know you're a

sea-----son-al beast, Like the star---fish that

drifted with the tide with the tide, So un--

-til your blood runs to meet the next full

moon, Your mad-ness fits in nicely with my

own, with my own, Your lun---a-cy fits

neatly with my own, My ve-ry

Own

We're not a---

-lone [instrumental]