Chords for Surfing Queen / Swimming Song - Loudon Wainwright III (Rockpalast 84)

_ _ _ Let's see. _ _
Okay, I'm gonna do two songs [G] dealing with water.
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
This is called [G] Surfer Queen. _ _ _
Do they have surfing in [C] Germany?
_ I bet they have it everywhere.
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [F] _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [A] She rode the waves _ [C] on her red [G] surfboard
[C] _ _
_ [A] When night would fall, [F] _ she'd always [G] ask for more
_ [C] _ _ [A] I'll always love [Em] you, _ my [G] _ _
[Em] surfin' _ [Am] queen _ _ _
[F] _ [G] My surfin' queen
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[A] We'd walk along the beach, [F] _ _ [G] under the sun
[C] _ _ [Am] Vowing not to part, [F] our names would sound [G] everywhere
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_ [A] I'll always love [F] you, _ _ [G] my _ [C] surfin' queen
[F] _
My surfin' [C] queen
_ _ Then _
[F] _ _ one windy night, [Fm] she went out on the wave
_ _ [C] _ We had had a fight, _ _ [G] I had sent her away
_ _ _ She [F] _ _
fell off her board, fell into the misty clouds
_ [G] Now the angry sea is just a [Em] watery _ shroud _ _
_ _ [G] Yuck!
_ [C] _ I sit alone each [F] night, _ _ hang my head [G] and cry
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ My surfin' [Am] queen _ rides _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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_ [F] her surfboard in [G] the sky _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Am] Yes, my darling, _ [F] I will always remember [G] that fantabulous night
_ [C] _ _ [Am] The moon was shining bright, everything was out of sight
I felt like [G] Barry White _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [G] You weren't uptight, [C] you were dead _
[A] _ I liked that though, because [F] you were so passive
_ [G] _
I could do [C] anything I wanted
[A] So I took your bathing suit off
[F] _ _ [G] Then you started to get [C] hard
_ _ [Am] That confused me
[F] _ _
I took [G] out the surfboard [C] wax
I [F] rubbed it all over your body
_ _ _ _ [G] I took you out and [Em] I rode a wave in on top of you
[A] You were a wonderful [F] person, but you're an incredible [G] surfboard
_ I [C] was hanging ten right in your [Am]
face
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _
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I'll [A] always love you
[F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [C] _ Sugar, rock water _
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Thank you _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Am] This summer I went [G] swimming
This summer I might [Em] have drowned
But I held my [C] breath and I kicked my feet
[D] And I moved my [Em] arms around
[E] I moved my arms around
This summer I [G] swam in the ocean
Swam [Em] in a swimming pool
Salt my wounds, [C] chlorine my eyes
I'm a self [Em]-destructive fool
I'm a [G] self-destructive fool _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _
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_ _ _ This summer I did the backstroke
[Em] You know that that's not all
I did the [C] breaststroke and the butterfly
[E] And the old [Em] Australian crawl
[E] The old [G] Australian crawl
This summer I swam in a public [A] place
In a [Em] reservoir to boot
_ _ _ _ _ _ At the latter I [C] was informal
At the former [Em] I wore my suit
I [G] wore my swimming suit
Yeah, _ _ _ [Em] yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] yeah, yeah, _ _ _ _ yeah, yeah
This summer I did swan dives
And [D] jackknives [Em] for you all _
But once when you weren't looking
[D] I did a [Em] cannonball
[D] I did a [G] cannonball
Hey, this summer I went swimming
This summer I might have [Em] drowned
But I held my [C] breath and I kicked my feet
And I moved [Em] my arms around
Yeah, I moved [G] my arms around
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ Thank you
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