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Southern Cross (2nd pos)

by Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jimmy Buffett · harmonica tab for C diatonic harmonica

No bends418 notesHoles 4–9Diatonic
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4 = blow hole 4-4 = draw hole 4’ = bend
Harp: D
Got out of town on a boat
Got out of town on a boat
Gon' to south-ern is-lands
Sail-ing a reach be-fore a fol-low-ing sea
She was mak-in' for the trades on the out-side
and the down-hill run to Pa-pe-e-te
Off the wind on this head-ing
lie the Mar-que-sas
We got eight-y feet of wa-ter-line
Nice-ly mak-ing way
In a nois-y bar in A-va-lon
I tried to call you
But on the mid-night watch
I re-al-ized why twice you ran a-way
Think a-bout how man-y times I have fall- en
Spir-its are us-ing me,
larg-er voic-es call- in'
What heav-en brought you and me
Key: D
Key: D
Look-ing for that wom-an girl
Who knows love can en-dure.
Key: A
When you see the South-ern Cross
for the first time
You un-der-stand now why you came this way
'Cause the truth you might be run-nin' from
is so small
But it's as big as the prom-ise,
the prom-ise of a com-ing day
So I'm sail-ing for to-mor-row,
my dreams are a dy- in'
And my love is an an-chor tied to you,
tied with a sil-ver chain
I have my ship and all her flags are a fly-in'
She is all that I have left
and mu-sic is her name
Think a-bout how man-y times I have fall- en
Spir-its are us-ing me,
larg-er voic-es call- in'
What heav-en brought you and me
Can-not be for-got- ten
Key: D
Look-ing for that wom-an girl
Who knows love can en-dure.
Key: A
So we cheat-ed and we lied and we test-ed
And we nev-er failed to fail,
it was the eas-i-est thing to do
You will sur-vive be-ing best-ed
Some-bod-y fine will come a-long
make me for-get a-bout lov-ing you
in the South-ern Cross.