Al Stewart - Sampan (from Between The Wars)


Notation by Christian Resseman and Adam Woolfe.





E                Emaj7/D#
The sun is high       looking out I see

    Amaj7
The emptiness beyond the jetty

G                B/F#
Seagulls raining like confetti

E
On the water




E           Emaj7/D#
Sea and sky        come together

      Amaj7
In a hazy kiss out on the ocean

G               B/F#
Europe seems a foreign notion

 E
Hardly thought of



A                         G              E     C#m
And would you leave your modern world behind ?

B            F#m
I know who I am

 Am            E     C#m
Riding on my sampan

B            F#m
I know who I am

 Am            E
Riding on my sampan




E             Emaj7/D#
In the shade      stands the foreman

       Amaj7
In a floppy hat and linen suit

   G                 B/F#
Beneath his ancient leather boot

      E
The ground is straining



E        Emaj7/D#
Far away, figures bend to tap

    Amaj7
The endless seas of rubber trees

    G                  B/F#
To coat the wheels of Paris taxis

  E
Where it's raining



A                         G               E     C#m
And would you leave your melting world behind ?

B            F#m
I know who I am

 Am            E     C#m
Riding on my sampan

B            F#m
I know who I am

 Am            E
Riding on my sampan





< solo (play verse chords)>


 Reapeat chorus and then end on 

 repeating ( B, F#m, Am, E, C#m)