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chord req 'There is an Ocean' (Donovan)

05 Dec 11 - 11:26 PM (#3269079)
Subject: chord req 'There is an Ocean'
From: dilly daly of Adelaide

Hi,
   just discovdered this great Donovan song on Youtube.Does anyone know the chords ? He has some great songs.cheers, Dilly

05 Dec 11 - 11:33 PM (#3269084)
Subject: RE: chord req 'There is an Ocean'
From: michaelr

I think I've got them somewhere, but it's late here. I'll look tomorrow. Good song.

06 Dec 11 - 03:58 AM (#3269125)
Subject: RE: chord req 'There is an Ocean'
From: Dave Hanson

It's probably the Derroll Adams song ' The Mountain '

Dave H

06 Dec 11 - 07:21 PM (#3269534)
Subject: RE: chord req 'There is an Ocean'
From: michaelr

No Dave, it's the Donovan song "There is an Ocean". Here you go, Dilly:


THERE IS AN OCEAN (Donovan P. Leitch)
From the album Essence to Essence (1973)


  Em                   Am
  There is an ocean of vast proportion
  
      B7                  Em
  And she flows within ourselves.
  
  Em                    Am 
  To take dips daily we dive in gaily,
  
     B7                       Em
  He knows who goes within himself.
  
  G            B7          Em                C
  The abode of angels, the mystical promised land,
  
  B7                           Em 
  The one and only heaven, the god of man
  
  B7                              Em
  Is but the closing of an eyelid away.
  
  
   
  There is a silence of pure excellence
   
  And she flows within ourselves.
   
  To appreciate, we de-activate.
   
  He knows who goes within himself.
   
  The domain of devils, the fearful land,
   
  The only and only Hades, the satan of man
   
  Is but the closing of an eyelid away.
  
  
  D  G            G/F#        Em
     All is as it was and evermore shall be,
  
  Am                 Am/G             D 
  Though they try to tell us it's not so.
  
  G            G/F#                  Em
  Over all the earth there's nothing new to see,
  
  Am              Am/G            D 
  Excepting every seed will newly grow.
   
  G            G/F#                Em
  Innocence in childhood false men misconstrue
  
  Am             Am/G              D 
  To be years of darkness spent in shade,
  
  G                   G/F#          Em 
  Denying childhood's vision of the god of love,
  
          Am               D                G    G/F# 
  So that truth be turned about and untruth made,
  
              Em 
  And untruth made.
   
  
   
  There is a reason for every season
   
  Of change within ourselves.
   
  To navigate, we appreciate
   
  And know the flow within ourselves.
   
  The deliverance from deluge, the good dry land,
   
  The one and only haven, the rock of man
   
  Is but the closing of an eyelid away.
  
  
  Em                 C  B7 
  There is a season, ooh,
   
  There is an ocean, ooh,
   
  There is a silence, ooh.
07 Dec 11 - 07:19 PM (#3270156)
Subject: RE: chord req 'There is an Ocean'
From: michaelr

refresh for Dilly

08 Dec 11 - 06:37 PM (#3270727)
Subject: RE: chord req 'There is an Ocean' (Donovan)
From: michaelr

dilly-dallying around somewhere, no doubt

11 Dec 11 - 01:27 AM (#3271880)
Subject: RE: chord req 'There is an Ocean' (Donovan)
From: dilly daly of Adelaide

Michaelr,
       thanks a lot, that's brilliant.Such a good song and now i can play it thanks to you.
          dfillying in the right direction

11 Dec 11 - 01:14 PM (#3272108)
Subject: RE: chord req 'There is an Ocean' (Donovan)
From: michaelr

You are welcome!