Passenger 26

Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: DCapotraste: Sem capotraste [Intro] E A (x2) [Verse 1] E A E A The last passenger on my list, number twenty-six E A She has to sit up the front with me E A D A D I'm joking on the intercom 'cause this part of Highway One E You wouldn't exactly pay to see A D E Backyards and rusting cars and sheets out on the line till the six lanes come down to two E A E And all the time she's giving me that look I've seen before E But this time I don't know what to do [Instrumental] E A (x2) [Verse 2] E Changing down on the road to the bay E Parking on the gravel strip E By the motel and the putting green D Once the travellers' cheques are signed D E She and I wait behind; I get us Ice-creams from the machine D John runs this motel and D He has a scar and a crooked hand D E A E He says: business hasn't been too good E Ever since the river mouth shifted to the south E And the trees washed down in the flood E D G D And he says; do you remember Mary and Jack? D G D E They had a baby - a few months back. That's their house - on that hill E He's a fine and healthy child E His dad's eyes and his mother's smile, but he's got webbed fingers and a fish's tail E Ahhh-ahhh-ahh [Verse 3] D After dark we meet in the bus E D E A E Her skin tastes like salt A E She rolls her eyes back when she comes D G D I wake up to the sound of the tide D G D I don't see her so I walk outside E [Verse 4] D G D The Coromandel's turn in their sleep D G D They breathe; across the deep E As I climb the hill E Just like the way she - breathed on me E Once she was still E The moon spills on the sea like silver paint on a black dress E I check my list again D G D G D There were only ever twenty fiiiiive E E And didn't John with the crooked hand say: D G D Its not human and it's not a bird D G D But sometimes you'd swear you heard a cry A [Verse 5] E It means gales are coming A E It means gales are coming E It means gales are coming E Through the gap A [Outro] E I think of my passenger E Wind's getting up E Wind's getting up