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Perfect Water

Blue Oyster Cult

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From: tgannon@charlie.usd.edu (spideir)

 "PERFECT WATER" (Blue Oyster Cult)
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 --comp. Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser & Jim Carroll (from _Club_Ninja_, 1986)
   -- chords & tabbed Intro "transcr." by tcg, 1994
   -- 4/4 // keys: Bm (D); E (C#m) // Allegro // ...slight flange


 --------                                                           [2nd x:
 INTRO TAB:                                                         to Verse]
 Em9    Bm [=hold thru=]  A               "G5"
 -2-0-----||----------------|---------------|---------------|-----2-0------||
 -3---0-3=||===3========--2=|==2====--0-2-3=|===3===========|===--3---0-3==||
 -0-----4=||o==4========--2=|==2====------0=|===0===========|===--0-----4=o||
 -2-----4=||o==4========--2=|==2====------0=|===0===========|===--2-----4=o||
 -------2=||===2========--0=|==0====--------|---------------|-----------2==||
 ---------||----------------|-------------3=|===3===========|===-----------||
  3 & 4 &      1  2  3 4  &    1 2 3  & 4 &     1  2  3  4   1 2  3 & 4 &

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 CHORDS USED, in order of appearance (@/$/% designate different voicings
                     of same chord)--
  Bm@:   x 2 4 4 3 x
  A@:    x 0 2 2 2 x
  G5:    3 x 0 0 3 x
  Em7:   0 2 2 0 3 x
  D/F#:  2 x 0 2 3 x
  D:     x x 0 2 3 2
  C/9:   x 3 2 0 3 0
  E:     0 2 2 1 0 0
  A$:    x 0 2 2 2 0
  D/9/A: x 0 4 2 3 0
  A%:    x 0 2 2(2)x
  B:     x 2 4 4(4)x
  C#m:   x 4 6 6(5)x
  Bm$:   x 2 4 4 3 2

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 LYRICS, CHORDS, & SEQUENCE of PARTS (see below for chord durations)--

 INTRO
 VERSE 1:
 Bm@          A@          G5                   Em7
     Perfect water - the dark wind braids the waves--
        D/F#      G5    D    b    C9   A   Bm@             (Bm@)
     The  crazed birds raid the trees--        Is this our destiny?
         E        A$   D/9/A   E          A$    D/9/A
     To join our hands   at   sea-- and slow  -  ly
      E          A$    D/9/A    E    A$   D/9/A
     sink, and slow  -  ly    think:
       G5            (G5)   [1 1/2-measure chord tacit; ->Em9]
     This is perfect water, passing over me--

 INTRO
 VERSE 2:
 Bm@              A@              G5                        Em7  D/F#  G5
     Do you know Jacques Cousteau?   Well, they said on the radi  -  o
              D          b   C/9      A   Bm                (Bm)
     That he hears bells in random order,  deep beneath the perfect water--
      E   A$    D/9/A     E          A$    D/9/A
     Love       that is frightening,
           E   A$    D/9/A    E      A$    D/9/A
     but still        so   inviting--
          E                    A$    D/9/A       E         A$    D/9/A
     To drown {drown-drown} inside a sound that lay so far underground,
              E                            A$          D/9/A
     And to think--{and to think} And to think {and to think}:
       G5            (G5)   [2-measure chord tacit]
     This is perfect water, passing over me.

 LEAD TACIT: ||: A%  b   C#m :||