TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN
Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.
HOW TO PLAY
- 1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
- 2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
- 3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.
LYRICS
Got out of town
on a boat gon’ to south ern is lands.
Sail ing a (A)reach
be (G)fore a fol low ing (D)sea.
She was mak ing for the trades
on the (D)out side,
and the (A)down hill run
to Pa pe e (D)te.
Off the (A)sail ing on this (G)head ing, lie the Mar (D)que sas.
We got (A)eight y feet of (G)wa ter line,
(D)nice ly mak (Asus)in’ (A)way.
In a nois y bar in (G)Av a lon, I tried to (D)call you,
but on the (A)mid night watch I (G)re al ized why (D)twice you (Bm)ran a way.
Think a bout how (D)man y times (G)I have fall
en.
Spir its are (D)us in’ me; (G)larg er voic es (A)call
in’.
What heav en brought (D)you and me (G)can not be for got
ten.
I have been a (Dsus)round
the (A)world,
(Dsus)look in’ (D)for that (G)wom an (A)girl
who (Dsus)knows (D)love (G)can en dure.
And you know it will.
When you see the South ern (G)Cross for the (D)first time,
you (A)un der stand now (G)why you came this (A)eas i est thing to do.
’Cause the truth you might be (G)run nin’ from is (D)so small,
but it’s as (A)big as the (G)come a long, make me for (D)prom ise of a (Bm)com in’ (A)day.
So I’m (A)sail ing for to (G)mor row.
My are a (D)dy ing.
And my (A)love is an chor (G)tied to you,
(D)tied with a (Asus)ver (A)chain.
In I have my ship, and (G)all a her flags are a (D)fly ing.
She is the (A)all that I have (G)left, al ized and (D)mu sic (Bm)is her name.
Think a bout how (D)man y times (G)I have fall
en.
Spir its are (D)us in’ me; (G)larg er voic es (A)call
in’.
What heav en brought (D)you and me (G)can not be for got
ten.
SONG INFO
- Level
- 5 of 5
- Key
- A
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
- Plays
- 22
- Chords
- A Asus4 Bm D Dsus4 G
- Category
- Rock
- Artist
- Crosby, Stills & Nash