My Father Was A Lighthouse Keeper Chords by The Incredible String Band

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[A] _ _ [D] Lying on the beach with desire, _ [A] _ [D] rocked into the music of the waves.
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ And despair lied _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [C#m] to me and I was [Em] bored by what I saw.
[G] _ _ [A] Why, [G] _
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_ [Bm] _ _ [G] why, [D] why? _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [A] My father was a lighthouse [Bm] keeper, watched [D] the ladies in their garb.
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Watched the waves getting [Bm] steeper, watched the ships [F#m] going down.
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_ [A] _ _ [D] In Cadillacs they sailed on the tide, [A] _ _ [D] beneath the pier the sea she stroked the night.
_ [A] _ [Em] Why, why, why, why?
A little lad.
Why, why, why, why?
[D] _ _ My [C#m] lover kissed my [E] lips and I was naked in what [G] I saw.
Why, _ [A] _ _
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_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Dm] _ [A] why, why?
My father [B] was a lighthouse keeper, watched the [D] ladies in their garb.
_ [A] Watched the waves [Bm] getting steeper, watched the [D] ships going down.
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_ [C#m] _ _ _ [A] _ Watched the days slip [Am] by and the stars [G] explode, and we'll watch once [D]
again.
[G] Why, why, why, why?
The love dove.
The girls [D] cheer.
_ [G] _ The laughter so nice to hear.
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_ [G] _ The laughter so damn [D] free.
_ [G] _ The love nice to.
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_ [G] _ I lay there among the shells like coat-hands in my lover.
[D] Oh yeah.
[G] _ And all the people sight-eating and smiling sadly in [D] their big cars.
[G] _ My father gazed from his lighthouse and he saw [D] it all and he knew it all.
[G] _ Then he laughed a little, so pretty, so [D] easy.
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