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Thread #23775   Message #266432
Posted By: Joe Offer
28-Jul-00 - 05:01 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Dolphin Story (Claudia Schmidt)
Subject: ADD: Dolphin Story - sung by Claudi
Well, I decided not to try the ex-girlfriend route, but I did find a cassette my baby brother made of the album. I had trouble with parts, but here's my best guess. Great story. Can anybody offer corrections?
-Joe Offer-
Dolphin Story
(Claudia Schmidt, 1981)

She in the sea, she in the sea,
She in the sea is a dolphin.
She must be, be in the sea
And only as a dolphin comes to me

Oh, the waves, they soared and swelled
As they took her in that day,
Through the power of the words of the jealous one
Who chose to have his way


Long ago, when the earth was new
And all that man lived on it
God placed there a fine young one
To love and care upon it.

He placed her there along man's side
And she grew so gracefully
That God himself, he fell in love
And it drove him mad with jealousy

And the young earth grew and children too
Were the fruit of new fertility
And the girl and boy were a light of joy
In the shadow of God's jealousy

Mother, father, watched by God
Gained beauty in their passion
And he knew he'd have the woman's heart
By force or other fashion

And he found her all alone one day,
And spoke of his enamorings
She shrank and called to the one she loved
With wild and frightened clamorings

She in the sea, she in the sea,
She in the sea is a dolphin.
She must be, be in the sea
And only as a dolphin comes to me

Oh, the waves, they soared and swelled
As they took her in that day,
Through the power of the words of the jealous one
Who chose to have his way


God cried, if I am refused,
Then shall your love be blighted
And shall you lose your woman's ways
And from the man be slighted

Monstrous shapes shall you assume
In the dark and restless sea.
And your only lasting link
Is as man's friend for all eternity

The he took her down upon the beach
And he loved her without shame
Crying, you the Dolphin shall be called
And your children be the same

She in the sea, she in the sea,
She in the sea is a dolphin.
She must be, be in the sea
And only as a dolphin comes to me

Oh, the waves, they soared and swelled
As they took her in that day,
Through the power of the words of the jealous one
Who chose to have his way


JRO