Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967

Intro: F5 G5 Am G/B (3x)
     ( F5 G5 Am G9/B G/B )
 
( C F F5(9) ) (4x)

 C                      C/G          F7(13)
Walt Grace, desperately hating his whole place
               F/G        Am
Dreamed to discover a new space
     Am/G          F7(13)
And buried himself alive
           C                        C/G          F7(13)
Inside his basement, tongue on the side of his face meant
               F/G         Am
He's working away on displacement
     Am/G                         F7(13)
And what it would take to survive

Dm                  Dm/C            G
'Cause when you're done with this world
Dm            Dm/C            G
You know the next is up to you
         C             F            G
And his wife told his kids he was crazy
           C               F           G
And his friends said he'd fail if he tried
            C             F
But with a will to work hard
       Am      D
And a library card
           F                    G                 C
He took a homemade, fan-blade, one-man submarine ride

( C F F5(9) ) (4x)

      C                   C/G        F7(13)
That morning, the sea was mad and I mean it
         F/G         Am
Waves as big as he'd seen it
           Am/G        F7(13)
Deep in his dreams at home
       C
From dry land
             C/G     F7(13)
He rolled it over to wet sand
           F/G           Am
Closed the hatch up with one hand
      Am/G        F7(13)
And peddled off alone

Dm                  Dm/C            G
'Cause when you're done with this world
Dm            Dm/C            G
You know the next is up to you
        C            F           G
And for once in his life it was quiet
       C             F           G
As he learned how to turn in the tide
          C         F
And the sky was a flare
         Am          D
When he came up for air
        F                   G                  C
In his homemade, fan-blade, one-man submarine ride

( C F F5(9) ) (4x)

( Dm Dm/C G ) (2x)
( C F G ) (2x)
( C F Am D )
( F G C )
( C F F5(9) ) (2x)

    C
One evening
                 C/G              F7(13)
When weeks had passed since his leaving
                 F/G        Am
The call she'd planned on receiving
        Am/G     F7(13)
Finally made it home
       C
She accepted
                C/G     F7(13)
The news she'd never expected
        F/G      Am
The operator connected
   Am/G         F7(13)
A call from Tokyo

Dm                  Dm/C            G
'Cause when you're done with this world
Dm            Dm/C            G
You know the next is up to you
         C
Now his friends
          F                 G4 G G9 G4
Bring him up when they're drinking
        C            F           G4 G  G4
At the bar with his name on the side
           C               F
And they smile when they can
          Am        D
As they speak of a man
            F                   G                  C
Who took a homemade, fan-blade, one-man submarine ride

( C F F5(9) ) (4x)