The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
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Andy: “. . . ‘The Man Who Sailed’ initially was a folk thing with acoustic guitar interweaving, but Todd wrote a brass arrangement for it. It has since come out as a cross between Bobby Darin's ‘Mack the Knife’ and Lena Horne's ‘Fever’! It's sort of a big band number.”
Andy: “The Holy Grill of some XTC demo collectors (bet you wished you hadn't bothered now!?) Didn't know whether this would make Skylarking so I never made an effort with the lyrics. When I did finish them, I think they turned out probably my favourite song words I'd ever written. I don't travel much these days. I'm more the man who sallied around his soil.”
“The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul” lip-sync from The Tube, 1987 |
The man who sailed around his soul
From East to West, from pole to pole
With ego as his drunken captain
Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold
The man who walked across his heart
Who took no compass, guide or chart
To rope and tar his blood congealed
When he found his self revealed ugly and cold
And the sirens that sing
By your nose with its ring
They'll drag you in
For your sins
Now he sits all alone
And it's no place like home
It's empty skin
A bag to keep life's souvenirs in
The man who sailed around his soul
The man who sailed around his soul
The man who sailed around his soul
Came back again to find a hole
Where once he thought compassion and the truth
Had laid to warm his freezing carcass on return
The man who walked across his heart
Was doomed to journey from the start
Of every love affair he'd broken
All the lies he'd ever spoken
Tattooed on his arm
And the jellyfish stings
Even angels with wings
Who look too deep
And dare to peep
Now he sits all alone
Knowing flesh blood and bone
Is everything
He found the treasure he'd been seeking
The man who sailed around his soul
© 1987 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 14:33:31 +0200 From: Florian Decros <flodecros (at) gmail dot com> Subject: Bass tabs of "Skylarking" Message-ID: <CAPtZtiPs1nY1yeFCibNRa75qhzrX8U_JhcbCUurHrPpGN_p=XA (at) mail dot gmail dot com>
Hi !
As a big fan of the album "Skylarking" and an enthusiast bass player,
I decided to transcribe all the songs from the record (except "1000
Umbrellas" because there's no bass, duh), including "Dear God".
There's surely mistakes here and there, but I tried to do my best.
Hope it will help some bass players across the word :)
Cheers,
Florian.
PS : Sorry if I made some grammatical mistakes, i'm french :)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:09:52 +0100
From: Jordi Ibáñez Llauradó <lohagoporelmessenger (at) hotmail dot com>
Subject: xtc songs
Message-ID: <BAY113-F11D978375E7EAC7A754B66DA390 (at) phx dot gbl>
OK, my first posting. please be gentle. i just want to say that
that's been done with no keyboard or organ at hand, so i can't
be more precise about the chords. that's why here you'll only
find the basic chords: it's up to you, people that can write,
read and dissect chords, to finish this work. so here it goes,
all the songs in the XTC catalogue that hadn't been tabbed in
this great site, from "black sea" to "nonsuch". you won't find
anything from "mummer" because the whole album has already been
"chorded" in this site.
don't expect any riffs or arpeggios, BTW. that's as far as my
skills go...
maybe i should be ashamed to post something like this (so
incomplete, wrong and childish) but it's just for the sake of
people who just want to strum XTC songs and sing and don't care
much if this is a sus4, added or other bollocks chord (and i must
point that i am one of those who really care, so i'm willing to
read all kinds of comments and corrections). please, john relph,
erase every transcription of mine as soon as a proper tab of each
song made by any other XTC fan who's more trained on guitar than me
comes to your mail.
songs like "the somnambulist" or "seagulls..." were meant to be
played on keyboards and sound terrible on guitar. beware!
THE MAN WHO SAILED AROUND HIS SOUL
well, can't do that. lots of D#m, C# and B in strange
varieties i can't find with my humble guitar and my
even humbler brains.
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hope that will be useful for somebody.
merry Xmas!
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