Epistle To Derroll Chords

Epistle To Derroll - Donovan
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*from 'A Gift from a Flower to a Garden' (1968)*
 
Video here - https://youtu.be/bSi6CZf6uZA
 
*CAPO 3rd FRET*
 
(Original Key: Eb)
 
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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   C       C/G     F       Am
 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 x32010  332010  133211  x02210
 
(*N.B* The C and C/G chord are played in this rhythm):
 
    C           C/G
e|-----------|-----------|
B|-----1--1--|-----1--1--|
G|-----0--0--|-----0--0--|
D|-----2--2--|-----2--2--|
A|--3--3--3--|-----3--3--|
E|-----------|--3--3--3--|
 
[Intro]
 
C  C/G  C  C/G  C  C/G  F  C  C/G  C  C/G
 
[Verse 1]
     C      C/G    C    C/G          F                C   C/G  C  C/G
Come all ye starry star-fish, living in the deep blue sea
C         C/G   C      C/G   F              C    C/G  C  C/G
 Crawl to me, I have a propo-sition to make thee
C          C/G      C         C/G       F                C    C/G  C  C/G
 Would you walk the North Sea floor, to Belgium from Eng-land
 
[Chorus 1]
C         C/G       Am
 Bring me word of a banjo man
       F             C    C/G  C  C/G
With a tattoo on his hand
 
[Verse 2]
    C         C/G    C    C/G   F                  C      C/G  C  C/G
The spokesman of the star-fish, spoke as spokesman should
C          C/G     C    C/G  F            C     C/G  C  C/G
  If'n you met our fee, then certainly we would
C           C/G    C       C/G     F                 C    C/G  C  C/G
 Should you cast a looking-glass u-pon the scalloped sand
 
[Chorus 2]
C            C/G          Am
 You'll have word o' this banjo man
       F             C     C/G  C  C/G
With a tattoo on his hand
 
[Verse 3]
     C      C/G    C    C/G     F                  C     C/G  C  C/G
Come all ye starry star-fish, I know your ways are caped
C      C/G    C            C/G   F         C      C/G  C  C/G
 Maybe its be-cause you're astro-logically shaped
C         C/G      C       C/G     F             C   C/G  C  C/G
 Converse with the herring shoals, as I know you can
 
[Chorus 3]
C         C/G         Am
 Bring me word o' the banjo man
       F             C    C/G  C  C/G
With a tattoo on his hand
 
[Verse 4]
    C      C/G    C    C/G   F              C    C/G  C  C/G
The eldest of the star-fish, spoke after a sigh
C          C/G    C         C/G     F              C    C/G  C  C/G
 "Youthful as you are young man you have a wisdom high
C       C/G      C      C/G          F             C     C/G  C  C/G
 Surely you must know a looking-glass is made from sand
 
[Chorus 4]
C            C/G      Am
 These young fish are fooling you
  F               C     C/G  C  C/G
A-bout your banjo man
 
[Verse 5]
C          C/G  C    C/G   F            C    C/G  C  C/G
 Come then aged star-fish, riddle me no more
C         C/G  C   C/G F               C    C/G  C  C/G
 For news I am wea-ry, and my heart is sore
    C      C/G    C   C/G    F              C   C/G  C  C/G
All on the silent sea-shore, help me if you can
 
[Chorus 5]
C        C/G Am           F           C    C/G  C  C/G
 Tell to me, if you know, of my banjo man
 
[Verse 6]
        C           C/G   C C/G      F              C    C/G  C  C/G
Now all through the seven o-ceans, I am a star most famed
C      C/G     C      C/G   F           C      C/G  C  C/G
 Many 'leggys' have I lost, many have I gained
C           C/G        C      C/G      F               C    C/G  C  C/G
 Strange to say, quite recent-ly, I've been to Flemish Land
 
[Chorus 6]
C       C/G     Am              F              C   C/G  C  C/G
 And if you are courteous, I'll tell you all I can
 
[Verse 7]
       C       C/G     C   C/G      F                 C    C/G  C  C/G
Oh you have my full at-ten-tion", I answered him with glee
    C       C/G        C     C/G          F             C   C/G  C  C/G
His brother stars were twink-ling, in the sky above the sea
C      C/G   C          C/G     F               C    C/G  C  C/G
 There I sat there with rapt at-tention, on the sand
 
[Chorus 7]
C     C/G     Am           F            C   C/G  C  C/G
 Very anxious for to hear, of the banjo man
 
[Verse 8]
C       C/G       C        C/G   F                   C    C/G  C  C/G
 I have seen this tattooed hand, through a ship port-hole
C         C/G    C      C/G   F                    C    C/G  C  C/G
 Steaming on the watery main, through the waves so cold
C          C/G      C      C/G F            C     C/G  C  C/G
 Heard his tinkling banjo, and his voice so grand
 
[Chorus 8]
    C        C/G     Am          F                  C     C/G  C  C/G
But you must come to Belgium, to shake the tattooed hand
 
[Verse 9]
C          C/G     C     C/G F              C   C/G  C  C/G
 Oh gladly would I come,     gladly would I go
C      C/G    C       C/G F              C    C/G  C  C/G
 Had I not my work to do, and my face to show
C     C/G      C         C/G       F            C   C/G  C  C/G
 I re-joice to hear he's well, but I must go in-land
 
[Chorus 9]
C          C/G     Am                 F           C    C/G  C  C/G
 Thank you for the words you brought, of my banjo man
 
[Verse 10]
  C        C/G      C       C/G      F                   C    C/G  C  C/G
I walked a-long the evening sand, as charcoal clouds did shift
   C       C/G C    C   C/G   F             C     C/G  C  C/G
Re-vealing the moon shi-ning, on the pebble drift
       C       C/G   C     C/G       F        C    C/G  C  C/G
Contem-plating every other word, the starfish said
 
[Chorus 10]
C        C/G         Am                F              C   C/G  C  C/G
 Whistly winds, they filled my dreams, in my dreaming bed
 
 
 
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)
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