Frozen Man chords by James Taylor

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro:
D      G        D    Em Asus A
Last thing I remember is the freezing cold
D       G     Em     D  A
Water reaching up just to swallow me whole
D     G        D  Em Asus  A
Ice in the rigging and the howling wind
D      G      Em   D  A
Shock to my body as we tumbled in
  Bm                A
My brothers and the others are lost at sea
G      D
I alone have returned to tell thee
G          D
Hidden in ice for a century
  E        A
To walk the world again
G      Asus    A  D
Lord have mercy on the frozen man

🎸 Verse:
D   G         D   Em  Asus A
Next words that were spoken to me
D    G        Em    D  A
Nurse asked me what my name might be
D        G      D     Em  A
She was all in white at the foot of my bed
D        G     Em    D   Asus A
I said angel of mercy I'm alive or am I dead
Bm         A
My name is William James McPhee
   G         D
I was born in eighteen forty-three
G          D
Raised in Liverpool by the sea
 E        A
But that ain't who I am
G     Asus     A   D
Lord have mercy on the frozen man


🎸 Bridge:
  G       Em    C    A
It took a lot of money to start my heart
  G   Em   A   D
To peg my leg and buy my eye
  G    Em     C      A
The newspapers call me state of the art
     G          Em   A
And the children, when they see me, cry

🎸 Verse:
 D          G         D    Em   Asus A
I thought it would be nice just to visit my grave
D         G    Em      Asus  A
See what kind of tombstone I might have
     D      G           D  Em Asus A
I saw my wife and my daughter and it seemed so strange
D      G     Em   D      Asus  A
Both of them dead and gone from extreme old age

🎸 Outro:
      D          G   D  Em  Asus A
See here, when I die make sure I'm gone
D        G     Em    D  A
Don't leave em’ nothing to work on
    D     G      D      Em  Asus A
You can raise your arm, you can wiggle your hand
      D     G         Em    D
And you can wave good-bye to the frozen man
 Bm          A
I know what it means to freeze to death
  G            D
To lose a little life with every breath
  G        D
To say good-bye to life on earth
  E      A
To come around again
G     Asus    A    D
Lord have mercy on the frozen man
G     Asus    A    D
Lord have mercy on the frozen man