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From: "Thomas Faulkenberry" <t_faulkenberry@hotmail.com>
 Subject: "Coast of Madagascar" by Mark David Manders
 Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:43:42 PDT
 Coast of Madagascar
 by Mark David Manders and Neuvo Tejas
 from the album "Tales from the Couch Circuit"
 Transcribed by Thomas Faulkenberry
 A                                D               A
 Tucked away in a cardboard box behind the attic door
                                             E
 My chance to find a book of rhymes from a hundred years before
 A                                 D            A
 Tales I read came to life like a sail in the breeze
                                     E             A
 Lord Byron was my captain, and his pages were my seas
 
 (chorus)
          D      E          A
 And we'd sail across the water
         D       E      A
 On the trade winds of time
               D      E   A      F#m
 And off the coast of Madagascar
       E                      A
 We'd leave our misfortunes behind
 
 
 There was something about a princess held captive by her foes
 There was something in his verses that would not let me go
 And as stately galliants poised to fight, sails stretching at the seams
 I'd fall asleep in the light and drift off to dream
 
 (repeat chorus)
 
 My life is like a cardboard box filled with memories and rhymes
 I've lost track of the book I had but I can still recall his lines
 Lookin' back I have to smile as I let my pen run free
 For I was much too young to fathom the course he'd set for me
 
 (repeat chorus 2x)