Slip Away
There is an old lady
Lives by the sea
She brings her laundry out each day
She sees how all the mussels and the cockles
In the seashore on the waves
Slip away
Slip away, slip away
Like the mussels and the cockles
On the seashore in the waves
Are gonna slip away
There is a tired hobo
Restin’ in the sand dune
Behind that lady’s shack
He sees how all the bed sheets
And her dresses and her panties
In the wind, are billowin’
Slip away, slip away
Like the bed sheets and the dresses and the panties
On the clothesline in the wind, slip away
The old lady was dyin’
And her heart was tired of tryin’
To keep the ocean out
So one day the waves will come
And wash away her home
And then she’ll swim on out
And slip away, slip away
One day the waves will come
And wash away her home
And then she’ll slip away
Her dress was first to be set loose
Followed by the bed sheets
And the panties too, they flew
The old lady was struck down
By the coldness in her heart
She never saw or turned around
Slip away, slip away
Swept down by the coldness of her heart
She never turned or saw them
Slip away
There is a tired hobo
Dressed in bed sheets and old lady’s panties
Walkin’ with the wind
The old lady is standin’
Naked by the ocean
Waitin’ for the waves
To take her in
And slip away, slip away
Standin’ naked by the ocean
Waitin’ for the waves
To come and slip away
Slip away, slip away
Like the mussels and the cockles
On the seashore in the waves
Are gonna slip away
February 22nd, 2009
here’s my version of this tab,
Verse:
F C Bb F
F C Bb F
chorus:
d min F C Bb
C Bb F F