Graf Zeppelin
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
A great one by one of the first calypsonians about a historical event. Joseph
[Verse 1]
A D A D
One Sunday morning I chanced to hear
E A
A rumbling and a tumbling in the atmosphere.
A D A D
One Sunday morning I chanced to hear
E A
A rumbling and a tumbling in the atmosphere.
D Bm
I ran to stare, people were flocking everywhere
E A
Gesticulating and gazing and pointing in the air,
D A E F#m E A
It was the Graf Zeppelin which had come to pay a visit to Trinidad.
[Verse 2]
A D
I gazed at the Zeppelin contemplatively
A
And marvelled at man’s ingenuity.
A D
The whirring of the engines was all I heard
A
As it floated in the air like some giant bird.
D Bm
And in between as the mighty airship gleamed
E A
The pilot and the sailors and the passengers were seen.
D A E
They were waving little flags they had,
F#m E A
heralding their visit to Trinidad.
[Verse 3]
A D
I gazed and the knowledge came back to me,
A
How wonderful the work of man can be.
A D
To see that huge object in the air,
D A
Maintaining perfect equilibrium in the atmosphere.
D Bm
Wonderfully, beautifully, gloriously
E A
Decidedly defying all the laws of gravity
D A E F#m E A
Was the Graf Zeppelin which had come to pay a visit to Trinidad.
[Verse 4]
A D
As I gazed at the Zeppelin something touched my hand,
A
I turned and saw an old, decrepit Indian man.
D
He said to me pointing at the Zeppelin,
A
"Massa, can you tell am what is that thing?
D Bm
Me feel to bawl, for me can't understand at all
E A
He have nothing hold him up dey and still he never fall."
D A E F#m E A
He was speaking of the Zeppelin that had come to pay a visit to Trinidad.
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