The Pearl Fishermen  


Capo on 4th fret


Em  G  A  Em  (NC)

Em               A              G     A
   The milkmoons dwell in their quiet shells
Em            A             Bm
   Where they fell from the Heaven
Em           A         G            A
   Two pearl fishermen   hold their breath again
Em             A                   Bm
Fight to the death again for the same prize

       Em       A         G
Oh, my brother, one of us loses
Bm       Em            A
One must drown and the other, she chooses

Em                 A           G           A
   The jade of the blue offers diamonds to you
Em                       A             Bm
   But you find it's not true when the sun sets
    Em         A             G           A
You dive far below where the sun doesn't go
           Em            A            Bm
Where your brother won't know and you hear her saying

        Em     A               G
"Oh, my lover, now that you've found me
Bm       Em         A
Now your brother is bound to be drowned
Bm            Em        A         G   
I  don't know why you'd feud over me
Bm           Em          A
   All those pearls lay asleep on the sea bed"

Bm  E  Bm  E  Bm  E  Bm  Em  A  G  Bm  Em  G  A

    Em           A           G                 A
The pearl in his hand, she's   just a grain of sand
      Em               A           Bm
She's    dressed up as snow in the moonlight
   Em      A           G          A
She's porcelain on his   sallow skin
  Em            A       Bm
He's been taken in by illusion

       Em             A          G
Oh, my brother, we're both of us losers
Bm            Em      A
I  don't know why she ever did choose us
   Bm           Em        A        G
To call one her lover and bury the other
   Bm           Em              A
So I'll hold my breath till the story is over

Bm  E  Bm  E  Bm  E  Bm  E  Bm  E