Chords for JAMES TAYLOR -FROZEN MAN

_ _ _ [G] I got [G#] the idea for this [B] song from _ [F#m] a magazine article in the National [G] Geographic magazine.
[A] It seems they found this guy [F#] frozen up above [A#] the Arctic Circle, buried in the frozen [B] earth, the tundra up there.
He'd been there for about a hundred years [F#] when these men of science [G] discovered his [F#] grave and dug him up.
[D] Naturally. _
[B] Of course.
And they took [A#] his picture and put it in the magazine and I saw his [G#] picture.
He looked really great.
In his picture he looked like he'd maybe been [Gm] dead for like ten or twenty years [N] tops.
But, _ _ really remarkable. _ _
_ I identified with him and this song. _ _
This song's sort of_ _ _ _ _ _
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The last thing I remember is the freezing [G] cold _
_ [D] _ [A] Water reaching up just to [G] swallow me [A] whole
_ [D] _ _ Ice in the [G] rigging and the [D] howling [Em] wind
_ _ [D] Shock [A] to my body [D] as we [G] tumbled in
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_ [Bm] My brothers and the others were lost at sea [G] and I alone I'm returned to tell thee
[G] Hidden in ice [D] for a century [Bm] I walked [E] the world [E] again _
No [D] doubt was he on the frozen _ land
_ [Em] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] The next words that were spoken [E] to me
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The nurse asked me what the name might be
_ _ She was all in white at the foot of my [E] head
_ [D] _ I said angel of mercy I'm alive and [A] am I
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[Bm] My name is [D] William James McPhee [G] I was born in _ [D] 1843
[G] Raised in [D] Liverpool by the sea
[Bm] Daddy [E] who I _ am
[D] No doubt was [D] he on the frozen land _ _
[G] Took a lot of [A] money to start my [F] _ art
_ [G] To [C] paint my label by [D] my eye
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] Newspapers called me slave [D] of the art
_ [G] And the children when [F] they see me [A] cry _ _ _ _
[D] I thought it'd be nice just to visit my grave
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_ To see what kind of tombstone I [G] might have
[A] _ _ [D] _ There lay my wife and my [G] daughter who seemed so [D] [Em] strange
_ _ _ [D] Both of them [A] dead and gone [D] from extreme [G] old age
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[Em] You see [D] there Lord when I die make sure I will [E] know
_ _ Don't leave me nothing to work on
[E] You _ _ [D] _ can raise your arm [G] you can [D] wiggle your [E] hand
I love myself _
So you can wave goodbye to the frozen [G] _
[D] land
_ I [Bm] know what it [F#m] means to freeze to death
[G] To lose a little life [D] with every breath
But to [G] say goodbye to life on earth
To come around [E] _
again
_ [D] Lord have mercy I'm a frozen land
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