Mersey Paradise Chords & Tabs
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The Stone Roses: Mersey Paradise
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Tabbed by: Kieran Millington
Tuning: Standard (Cappo 5th Fret)
e|-----2-----0---2---3---2---0---2---0-------------3---------0---------3-----|
B|--------3------------------------------3-------3---3-----2---2-----3---3---|
G|--------------------------------------------0----------2---------0---------|
D|--0------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-------0-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----2----2----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---2-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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D
River splashes against the rocks
G A
And I scale the slope,
G A
I hope the tracks won’t,
D
Lead me down to dark black pits or,
G A G A
Places where we fall to bits,
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/stone_roses/mersey_paradise_tab.html ]
D
If she were there I’d hold her down
G A G A
I’ll push her under while she drowns
D
And couldn’t breathe and claw for air
G A G A
She doesn’t care for my despair
A
Or is it me?
D G
The one that’s wrong?
A
(the one that's wrong)
You see it in the sea
D G
River cools where I belong
A D G D G A G A
In my mersey paradise
D
As I stare an oil wheel comes,
G A G A
Sailing by and I feel like
D
Growing fins and falling in
G A G A
With the bricks the bikes the rusty tin
D
I'll swim along without a care
G A G A
I’m eating sand when I need air
D
You can bet your life I’ll meet a pike who’ll
G A G A
Wolf me down for tea tonight
A D
I want to be (I want to be)
G A
Where the drownings are (drownings are)
A
You see it in the sea
D G
River cool’s where I belong
A D
In my mersey paradise
A D
I want to be (I want to be)
G A
Where the drownings are (drownings are)
A
You see it in the sea
D G
River cool’s where I belong
A
Oh yeah
A D
I want to be (I want to be)
G A
Where the drownings are (drownings are)
A
You see it in the sea
D G
River cool’s where I belong
A D
In my mersey paradise