Calypso

Words & Music by John Denver
from Windsong (1975)

Unusual chords:
A6      :  ||2222
Amaj7   :  ||2224
Bm/A    :  ||4432
Em7/A   :  ||||||
A(add B):  ||22||
Dsus4   :  |||233  


    A                     A6
To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean,
    Amaj7                  A            Bm/A            
to ride on the crest of a wild raging storm
    A                      A6
To work in the service of life and living,
    Amaj7        A                      Bm/A    
in search of the answers of questions unknown
       A                        A6
To be part of the movement and part of the growing,
 Amaj7     A                Em7/A
part of beginning to understand,

D                 A   
Aye Calypso the places you've been to,
      D                  A 
the things that you've shown us,
      E          A
the stories you tell
D               A   
Aye Calypso, I sing to your spirit,
     D            A             E7          A
the men who have served you so long and so well

       E     D  A        E
Hi dee ay-ee ooo doo-dle oh
      D        A          E      D  A
oo do do do do do doo-dle ay yee 
	E        
doo-dle ay ee 

Dsus4  S  A(add B)  A   D   A(add B)   D

	  A                            A6
Like the dolphin who guides you, you bring us beside you
    Amaj7                      A          Bm/A          
To light up the darkness and show us the way
      A                         A6
For though we are strangers in your silent world
    Amaj7       A                           Bm/A
To live on the land we must learn from the sea
	A                    A6
To be true as the tide and free as a wind swell
 Amaj7      A                   Em7/A
Joyful and loving in letting it be

D                 A   
Aye Calypso the places you've been to,
      D                  A 
the things that you've shown us,
      E          A
the stories you tell
D               A   
Aye Calypso, I sing to your spirit,
     D            A             E7          A
the men who have served you so long and so well

       E     D  A        E
Hi dee ay-ee ooo doo-dle oh
      D        A          E      D  A
oo do do do do do doo-dle ay yee 
	E        
doo-dle ay ee 

       E     D  C#m  Bm  A
he dee Ay-ee 
       E      D  C#m  Bm  A
Hi dee oh  ooo
       E   D   C#m  Bm  A
hi dee ayee 
       E      Dsus4   D
hi dee oh ooo