CALYPSO (Suzanne Vega)
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[Bbapo 3.]

D7  D7sus4  D7  D7sus4   D7  D7sus4  D7  D7sus4
[intro]

D7         D7sus4         D7             D7sus4
  My name is Calypso, and I have lived alone
D7              D7sus4     D7        D7sus4
  I live on an island, and I 'waken to the dawn
G           G7/6sus4   G                   G7/6sus4
Long time ago,       I watched him struggle with the sea
D7             D7sus4         D7                 D7sus4
  I knew that he was drowning, and I brought him in to me
Gsus4    Gsus4    G(4)    G(4)
  Now today, come morning light
Bb        Bbmaj7    Em7(4)    Em7(4)     D      D7sus4  D          D7sus4
He sails away; after       one       last night,      I let him go

My name is Calypso; my garden overflows
Thick and wild and hidden is the sweetness there that grows
My hair, it blows long as I sing into the wind
I tell of nights where I could taste the salt on his skin
Salt of the waves and of tears
And though he pulled away, I kept him here for years
Now I let him go

[Guitar solo: same chords as one verse, but for all the E - E7sus4 parts,
 just play it like the "I let him go" parts at the end of the verses.]

My name is Calypso; I have let him go
In the dawn he sails away to be gone forever more
And the waves will take him in again, but he'll know their ways know
I will stand upon the shore with a clean heart and my song in the wind
The sand will sting my feet and the sky will burn
It's a lonely time ahead; I do not ask him to return; I let him go
I let him go




- transcribed by Adam Schneider, http://adamschneider.net/