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Introduction:
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Hear the rime of the Ancient Mariner,
see his eye as he stops one of three
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Mesmerises one of the wedding guests -
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Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea.
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And the music plays on as the bride passes by
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Caught by his spell and the Mariner tells his tale.
( * = I would suggest faking that little fill on the studio version)
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Driven south the the land of the snow and ice,
to a place where nobody's been.
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Through the snow fog flies on the albatross, hailed in God's name,
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hoping good luck it brings.
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And the ship sails on, back to the north.
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Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on.
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The mariner kills the bird of good omen
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His shipmates cry against what he's done
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But when the fog clears they justify him
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And make themselves a part of the crime.
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Sailing on and on and North across the
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sea... Sailing on and on and
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North 'til all is calm.
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The albatross begins with its vengeance
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A terrible curse, a thirst has begun
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His shipmates blame bad luck on the Mariner
About his neck the dead bird is hung.
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And the curse goes on and on and on at sea.
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And the curse goes on and on for them and me.
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"Day after day, day after day we stuck nor breath nor motion.
As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.
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Water water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink
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Water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." (S.T.Coleridge)
(this entire section will be repeated again below with different words)
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There, calls the mariner, there comes a ship over the
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But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no
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Death and she life in death, they throw their dice for the crew
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She wins the mariner and he belongs to her now.
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Then... crew one by one, they drop down dead, two hundred men
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She, she life in death, she lets him live, her chosen one.
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Play this part a total of four times (follow the left/right channels all
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before the quiet part.
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bass changes to Bass Riff 1 for lyrics.
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Then down in falls comes the rain.....
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On the last note of Adrian's solo, Dave comes in with the exact
same note and takes over lead while Adrian drops back to rhythm.
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Hear the groans of the long dead seamen
See them stir as they start to rise
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None of them speak and they're lifeless in their eyes
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And revenge is still sought, penance starts again
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Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on.
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Now the curse is finally lifted, and the Mariner sights his home
Spirits go from the long dead bodies
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Form their own light and the Mariner's left alone.
Play [Shanty A] again! (remember that?)
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And then a boat came sailing towards him
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It was a joy he could not believe
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The pilot's boat, his son and the hermit
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Penance of life will fall onto Him.
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And the ship it sinks like lead into the
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sea... And the hermit
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shrieves the Mariner of his sins.
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The Mariner's bound to tell of his story
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To tell his tale wherever he goes
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To teach God's word by his own example
That we must love all things that God made.
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And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man
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And the tale goes on and on and on and on...