Chords for Caribbean Wind (Studio Outtake - 1981)

_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ He [G] was the rough shatter [Bm] from paradise lost [Em] from the city of seven hills near the place
of [C] the cross.
[G] I was playing a [D] show in Miami [Em] and I'd seen her [G] up beside [C] Carmen G. _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] Told her about Jesus, [Bm]
told her about the rain.
[Em] She told me about the jungle where her brothers were [G] slain.
About the man who [D] invented iron, [Em]
disappeared [G] so [C] mysteriously. _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] Was she a child of God?
She [D] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
was [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [Em] a _ _ [C] child of God.
_ [G] She was a child of God.
She was a child [D] of God.
She was a child of God.
[Em] She was [G] a child of [C] God.
She [Am] was a child of God.
She was [C] a child of God.
She was a child of [D] God.
She was a child of God.
She was a child of God.
[G] Vanessa, _ _ _ [C] Mexico.
_ [G] Bearing flames [C] in the burning of [D] desire. _ _
_ _ _ [C] An empty stash of [D] _ liberty [G] hung in my own way.
[A] So [C] old and [G] free.
Freeing everything [C] that is with me.
[D] Mirror to [G] the fire. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] See Reed Floyd, [Bm] he's a hellhound lute.
[Em] _ Redeeming the world, [C] escape from the noose.
[G] Preaching [D] faith and salvation, [Em] waiting on [G] the night to [C] arrive.
_ _ _ _ _ [G]
He was wearing a naked, [D] little [Bm] hotwood snare.
[Em] And she had left a [C] dying there.
[G] He was going down [D] slow, [Em] just [D] barely staying [C] _ alive. _ _ _ _
[G] A tired peacock [D] flies across [Bm] my head.
[Em] A ceiling fan broken, there's a [C] heat in my bed.
[G] A street [D] lamp laying, [Em] a mirror [D] my God [C] to be. _ _ _ _ _
[G] We met at the station, [F#m] near the Mission Buildery.
She [Em] said, I know what you're thinking.
But there [C] ain't a thing [G] you can do [D] about it.
[Em] So let us just [D] agree to [C] agree.
[Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _
And then _ Caribbean [D] winds fell from [G] _ _ Nassau to _ [C] Mexico.
[G] _ Flaming flames [C] on the furnace of [D] desire. _ _ _ _ _
[C] And the dispatch ships [D] of _ liberty, [G] on them I am waiting for God [C] to free.
[G] Bringing everything that [C] we see and believe, [D] _ [E] nearer to the [G] fire. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] Atlantic City, [D] by the [Bm] cold great sea.
[Em] Hear a voice crying, daddy, I always [C] think it's for me.
[G] But it's only the [D] silence in [Em] the buttermilk [G] hills that [C] _ call. _
_ _ _ _ [G] Every new messenger bring [D] an [Bm] evil report.
But [Em] I'll be found in my, in time [C] that is short.
And [G] families in [D] their fakes and [Em] plain rags, and they're telling [C] down on the walls. _
_ _ _ [G] Did you ever have a dream that [D] you [Bm] couldn't explain?
[Em] Never meet your accusers, face to face [C] in the rain.
She [G] had those brown [D] eyes [Em] that I won't forget as [C] long as she's gone. _
_ _ I [G] see the schools breaking loose.
[Bm] See the devil pounding on the ears.
[Em] I see a house in the country where you're told how [C] far I'm from here.
[G] I can hear [D] my ancestors [Em] calling [G] from the land [C] far beyond.
_ [Am] _ _
[C] _ _ _ And the Caribbean _
[D] winds they blow, [G] from Nassau to [C] Mexico.
[G] _ Burning the [C] flames in the furnace of [D] desire. _ _
_ _ _ [C] And the dispatch ships [D] of liberty, [G] on them I am waiting for God [C] to free.
[G] Bringing everything [C] that's in me, [D] _ nearer to [G] the fire. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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