Lorelei

***Lorelei - by Philip Chevron

from the album "Peace And Love"

Try these changes. I play it along with the album and it sounds right.

The intro progression is somewhat different, but I think it's just an

E-A-B-A kind of thing. Let me know if you think this is better.

Lorelei - as perfomed by The Pogues

E

You told me tales of love and glory

A

Same old sad song, same old story

E C#m

Sirens sing no lullaby

G#m B

And no one knows but Lorelei

Castles out of fairy tales

Timbers shiver where once there sailed

A lovesick man who caught her eye

And no one knew but Lorelei

F#m

CHORUS: River, river have mercy

B

Take me down to the sea

F#m

For if I perish on these rocks

B

My love no more I'll see

I've thought of you in far-off places

Puzzled over lipstick traces

So help me God, I will not try

And then I think of Lorelei

I've traveled far and wander wide

An old photograph of you beside me

Old Man River's not so shy

And he remembers Lorelei

CHORUS

If I should float upon this stream

And see you in my madman's dream

I'd sink into your troubled eyes

And none would know save Lorelei

CHORUS: Oh, river river river have mercy...

But if my ship which sails tomorrow

Should crash against these rocks, my sorrows

I will drown, before I die

It's you I'll see, not Lorelei

E

I-I-I

Outro: E A2 (repeat & end on E)