Come Sail Away Chords

by Styx
KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays695

Come Sail Away by Styx is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G/B, Am, Am/G, F, Fmaj7, G, G7, C5, F5, G5 and A5. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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wambag: 
piano/keyboard transcribed to simple open guitar chords 

C   G/B      Am    Am Am/G F 
I'm sailing away, 

            Fmaj7          G             G7 
set an open course for the virgin sea.  
   
       C    G/B       Am     Am Am/G F 
'Cause I've got to be free, 

               Fmaj7        G 
free to face a life that's ahead of me. 
  
Am                        G    
 On board I'm a captain,   so climb aboard. 
  
Am                            G  
 We'll search for tomorrow     on ev'ry shore. 

         C    G/B           Am   Am Am/G F 
And I'll try, oh Lord, I'll try 

        G     C 
to caaaaaarry on.  
  
INTRO 

I look to the sea, 
reflections in the waves spark my memory. 
Some happy, some sad, 
I think of childhood friends and the dreams we had. 
We lived happily forever, so the story goes. 
But somehow we missed out on the pot of gold. 
But we'll try, best that we can, 
to carry on! 

barred power chords, pedal bass strings with palm muting 
C5 (3rd fret)  F5 (8th fret)  G5 (10th fret)  F5   x2 

  C5           F5       G5              F5 
A gathering of angels appeared above my head. 

     C5              F5               G5                F5 
They sang to me this song of hope and this is what they said, they said, 

 C5              F5                   G5             F5 
"Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me, lads. 

C5              F5                   G5             F5 
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me. 

C5              F5              G5                  F5 
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me, baby. 

C5              F5                   G5             A5 (12th fret) 
Come sail away, come sail away, some sail away with me!" 

SOLO BRIDGE 

C5 F5 G5 F5 x3 

I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise 
we climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies, singing, 
"Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me, lads, 
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me." 
etc. 


    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante