Suzanne Vega Calypso

Tom: C (com acordes na forma de A ) Capostraste na 3ª casa To: Subject: /v/ ---------------------- I learned this from the book _The_Authentic_Guitar_Style_of_Suzanne_Vega_, be without it. Buy it; it's only $12.95, and it has very good transcriptions of eleven songs from Suzanne's first two albums. If your local music store doesn't have it, do a special order or call Hal Leonard (Cherry Lane's distributor) directly; that's how I got it. TAB FOR INTRO AND FIRST VERSE: [The second and third verses are slightly different; if you want to get it exactly right, just listen to the recording.] [An equal sign (=) is a hammer-on; 2 means quickly hammer-on from 0 to 2.] [Accents are on the 1st, 4th, and 7th eighth notes of each measure; those are usually played by the thumb. (In the recording, you can barely even hear the non-accented notes.)] [Actually in G; capo at the 3rd fret.] E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I live on an island and I 'waken to the dawn A A7/6sus4 A A7/6sus4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A long time ago, I watched him struggle with the sea E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I knew that he was drowning and I brought him in to me A A A A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C C7M Gbm7 Gbm7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . he sails away; Af - ter one last E E7sus4 E E7sus4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . night, I let him go. LYRICS AND CHORDS: [It's a judgement call as to whether the E7's are actually E's or E7's. And it doesn't really matter.] [For the "I let him go" parts at the ends of the verses, play as many the last two measures of the first verse.] [Capo 3.] E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 [intro] E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 I live on an island, and I 'waken to the dawn A A7/6sus4 A A7/6sus4 Long time ago, I watched him struggle with the sea E7 E7sus4 E7 E7sus4 I knew that he was drowning, and I brought him in to me A A A A Now today, come morning light C C7M Gbm7 Gbm7 E E7sus4 E E7sus4 He sails away; after one last night, I let him go Thick and wild and hidden is the sweetness there that grows My hair, it blows long as I sing into the wind I tell of nights where I could taste the salt on his skin Salt of the waves and of tears And though he pulled away, I kept him here for years Now I let him go just play it like the "I let him go" parts at the end of the verses.] In the dawn he sails away to be gone forever more And the waves will take him in again, but he'll know their ways know I will stand upon the shore with a clean heart and my song in the wind The sand will sting my feet and the sky will burn It's a lonely time ahead; I do not ask him to return; I let him go I let him go