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Shakey Isles  - Dave Dobbyn
Transcribed by John Kean.

Not released on any album - this transcription from a scratchily-recorded radio single.


Capo 2nd fret.

4/4 time

Chords marked are 1 bar duration, except those in the bridge, which are 1 beat.

Note: Chords marked * have the following riff played over them:

    ,  .  ,  .  ,  .  ,  .

  |-4--0---------------------|
  |-------7--0---------------|
  |--------------------------|
  |--------------------------|
  |--------------------------|
  |--------------------------|

INTRO:

 E  E  E  E  A  A  E*

VERSE 1:

E                  E       E
 It's not very far, a mere stone's throw away
E                               E
 From the quay in the city, you walk round by the wall
      A                                    A
 They built in the depression, the sea wall of stone
E*                             E                                    B
 The tide is rolling in over a small rock I used to fish on with the old man
B            A
 I get a warm feeling looking across the bay
A                     E*  E
 The sun's going down


VERSE 2:

                      E
 I'm dressed in black, sweating in my shoes
        E
 It's a hot humid gray day, I've got fear
A                             A                   E      E       E
 Tears welling in my eyes, it comes as no surprise to me now, no
         B
 Yeah, I think about the lies we told
     B                               A
 Went down through the fishing nylon in the bay
         A
 I laugh about it now


CHORUS 1:

 E                 E       E                 E
 Standing on Shaky Island, standing on Shaky Island
                 A                 A
 It's shaking me down to my bones, down where I belong
              E            E
 To where I'm free I guess, yes
                B                                 B
 Feels like the Motherland, the Fatherland, got a father buried on the hill
        A
 With a better view than I, I know
A                     E     E
 I'm standing on Shaky Isles, yep


BRIDGE 1:

B  B       B          A         E       E      E/G#   A
 I have my head down, I've seen so much of the ground lately
B  B       B     A    E      E/G#  A
 I look up, it's all aglaze
B    B         B        A      E    E        E/G#  A
 And when your heart is aching this bad baby
   B            B            B     A    E    E      E/G#  A
 I guess that's what it feels like to belong anyway


CHORUS 2:

 E                 E       E                 E
 Standing on Shaky Island, standing on Shaky Island, yeah
 E                    E                   A   A
 (Oh-na-na, oh-na-na, oh-na-na, oh-na-na)
 E*                   E
 (Oh-na-na, oh-na-na, oh-na-na, oh-na-na)

                      B                           B
 Don't it feel like a Motherland, the Fatherland, take it any way you can
 A                   A                               E*     E
 (Standing on Shaky Island) Standing on these Shaky Isles


BRIDGE 2: (as for bridge 1)

CHORUS 3:

 E                 E       E                 E
 Standing on Shaky Island, standing on Shaky Island
                 A                 A
 It's shaking me down to my bones, down where I belong
              E                E
 To where I'm free I guess, yes, I take it with me
   B                                 B
 A Motherland, the Fatherland, got a father buried on the hill
          A
 With the best view in town
 A
 I'm standing on Shaky Isles

OUTRO:

 E*                 E                         A
 (Standing on Shaky Island) Standing on Shaky Isles
          A            E*
 With the best view in town
E                     B                         B
 Don't it feel like a Motherland, a Fatherland, take it any way you can
     C#m
 The best view in town
A                        E*     E
 Standing on these Shaky Isles
                     A      A                    E*     E
 Seen so much of the ground, seen so much of the ground
               B           B             A      A
 It feels like, looks like, it feels like, yeah
          E*
 I belong