Horse Overboard
Released in 1985 by Rough Trade
Transpose
INTRO
Abadd9/A#
Fm7
Abadd9/A#
Fm7
Abadd9/A#
Fm7
Abadd9/A#
Fm7
Abadd9/A#
Fm7
Abadd9/A#
Fm7
Abadd9/A#
Fm7
Aadd9/B
VERSE 1
Fadd9/G
While I was a
Cmaj7
way at sea
With
G7sus2
boilers, cargo and
Cmaj7
gin
Fadd9/G
My wife still
Cmaj7
lived
alone
In a
G7sus2
cottage by the
Cmaj7
lake
Fadd9/G
Each night I
Cmaj7
kissed her face
G7sus2
In the photo
Cmaj7
graph
Fadd9/G
But I dreamed of a
Cmaj7
happy
day
When
G7sus2
I’d be moving
A
back
CHORUS 1
C
Can we
Gm7
sleep
alone?
Ab/A#
We can’t sleep alone
C
One horse
Gm7
overboard
Ab/A#
We do what we want
VERSE 2
Fadd9/G
When she was just
Cmaj7
six years old
Her
G7sus2
daddy found her a
Cmaj7
horse
Fadd9/G
First she was a
Cmaj7
stable
girl
G7sus2
Then a teacher of
Cmaj7
youth
Bm
Came
D
the
G6
day
D
I
D7
came
G6
home
E
G
We moved into the
A7sus4
city
G
Both of us over
A7sus4
sixteen
CHORUS 1
C
Can we
Gm7
sleep
alone?
Ab/A#
We can’t sleep alone
C
One horse
Gm7
overboard
Ab/A#
We do what we want
VERSE 3
Fadd9/G
It struck me a
Cmaj7
bout this time
That
G7sus2
I just didn’t
Cmaj7
care (So I said)
Fadd9/G
Get me to a
Cmaj7
nother
land
G7sus2
I don’t want my
Cmaj7
wife
INTERLUDE
Dmaj7
E
Dmaj7
Amaj7
Cmaj7
Fmaj7
Fadd9/G
Fmaj7
Fadd9/G
CHORUS 2
C
Can we
Gm7
sleep
alone?
Ab/A#
My wife is a horse
C
Poor old
Gm7
sailor
boy
Ab/A#
Beached
forevermo
C
re
Gm7
Forever
Ab/A#
more
Forever
C
more
Gm7
Forever
Ab/A#
more
Forever
C
more
Gm7
Ever and ever and
Ab/A#
ever and ever and ever
FADE
Am7
Fadd9/G
C
Dsus4
D
Fadd9
Fadd9/G
C
Dsus4
D