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The Frozen Man
James Taylor on New Moon Shine
(James Taylor) 1991
Last thing I remember is the freezing cold [[D] D, /f# /g ]
Water reaching up just to swallow me whole [[D] G, ]
Ice in the rigging and the howling wind [[D] D, /f# /g ]
Shock to my body as we tumbled in [[D] G, ]
My brothers and the others are lost at sea [[Bm] ]
I alone am returned to tell thee [[G] ]
Hidden in ice for a century [[G] ]
To walk the world again [[E7sus] ]
Lord have mercy on the frozen man [[Gmaj7] Gmaj7, D, ]
Next words that were spoken to me [[D] D, /f# /g ]
Nurse asked me what my name might be [[D] G, ]
She was all in white at the foot of my bed [[D] D, /f# /g ]
I said angel of mercy I'm alive or am I dead [[D] G, ]
My name is William James McPhee [[Bm] ]
I was born in 1843 [[G] ]
Raised in Liverpool by the sea [[G] ]
But that ain't who I am [[E7sus] ]
Lord have mercy I'm the frozen man [[Gmaj7] ]
It took a lot of money to start my heart [[G] ]
To peg my leg and to buy my eye [[G] ]
The newspapers call me state of the art [[G] ]
And the children, when they see me, cry [[G] ]
I thought it would be nice just to visit my grave [[D] D, /f# /g ]
See what kind of tombstone I might have [[D] G, ]
I saw my wife and my daughter and it seemed so strange [[D] D, /f# /g
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Both of them dead and gone from extreme old age [[D] G, ]
See here, when I die make sure I'm gone [[D] D, /f# /g ]
Don't leave 'em nothing to work on [[D] G, ]
You can raise your arm, you can wiggle your hand [[D] D, /f# /g ]
And you can wave good-bye to the frozen man [[D] G, ]
I know what it means to freeze to death [[Bm] ]
To lose a little life with every breath [[G] ]
To say good-bye to life on earth [[G] ]
To come around again [[E7sus] ]
Lord have mercy on the frozen man [[Gmaj7] ][[D] ]
Lord have mercy on the frozen man [[Gmaj7] ]
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The rhythms on this one are pretty tricky; he starts off the beat on a lot of
the lyrics.
Steve Johnson
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