Tom: C
F Em Dm F C
[Verse 1]
C
There is a broken casket,
G
Washed up by the morning tide,
G G7
With a young girl's magic momentos,
C
And second hand jewelry inside.
[Verse 2]
C
Letters from long dead lovers,
F
Tied now with a seaweed bow,
F Em
A first world war photo-graph
Dm G C7
Of a German matelot.*
F Em
A first world war photo-graph
Dm F C
Of a German matelot.
[Bridge]
F
Attracted by the glittering,
Cm Eb
A hermit crab approaches
F
The caskets gaudy entrails
Cm G
Of necklaces and broaches.
[Verse 3]
C
Two ticket for Hohenlinden,
G
Lie half buried in the sand.
G G7
And a peom by Christian Morgenstern
C
Copied carefully by hand.
[Verse 4]
C
As the sun climbs high in the heavens,
F
And fisherman return from the kill,
Em
The hermit crab scuttles for safety
Dm G C
As children swoop down from the hill.
F Em
The hermit crab scuttles for safety
Dm G C
As children swoop down from the hill.
[Instrumental]
F Cm Eb F Cm Eb G
[Verse 3]
C
There is a broken casket,
G
Washed up by the morning tide,
G G7
With a young girl's magic momentos,
C
And second hand jewelry inside.
[Verse 4]
C
Letters from long dead lovers,
F
Tied now with a seaweed bow,
F Em
A first world war photo-graph
Dm G C7
Of a German matelot.
F Em
A first world war photo-graph
Dm G C
Of a German matelot.
