The Boatman
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Written by The Levellers, from their 1991 album "Levelling The Land".
Tabbed by Leigh (lypatbcn@hotmail.com). Added 01-JUN-2003.
Intro and riff:
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B-----------2--3--3--3--3---3--3---3-------------
G------0----2--2--2--2--2 --4--2---0-------0-----
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e-----------2--2--2--2---3--2---2---2------------
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G---------0/2--2--2--2--2 --4--2---0-------------
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(Then To C chord )
D C D
If I could chose the life I please then I would be a boatman
RIFF once
D C D
On the canals and the rivers free no hasty words are spoken
RIFF once
C G
My only law is the river breeze that takes me to the open seas
D C D
If I could chose the life I please then I would be a boatman
If I could chose the life I please then I would be a rover
And if the roads was not for me then I would chose another
Mountains and the valleys deep where I would take this weary feet
If I could chose the life I please then I would be a rover
RIFF once
Am G Am G
But these things are so hard for me I cannot chose my own destiny
Am G D
And all things that I want to see are so unclean
RIFF
Well I wish I could chose the life I please, I am not a free man
Others rule my destiny but my will is never broken
Am G Am G
I know some day I will be everything that I dreamed I'd be
D C D
And when I've lived the life I please then I will be a free man
Am G Am G
I know some day I will be everything that I dreamed I'd be
D C D
And when I've lived the life I please then I will be a free man
D C D
And when I've lived the life I please then I will be a free man
(Glastonbury 1992 Alternate 2nd verse: )
If I could chose the life I please then I would be a spaceman
Taking LSD and extcasy and I'd be off my face man
But all this extcasy it does strange things to me
If I could chose the life I please then I would be a spaceman
