Nick Drake - Clothes Of Sand

nick drake – clothes of sand

this is the basic picking pattern for the song . you need a capo on the
first fret . tune your B string down to a for this but it stills sounds good
in standard .

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lyrics :
who has dressed you in strange clothes of sand
who has taken you far from my land
who has said that my sayings were wrong
and who will say that i stayed much too long?

clothes of sand have covered your face
given you meaning but taken my place
so make your way on down to the sea
something has taken you so far from me .

does it now seem worth all the colour of skies
to see the earth through painted eyes
to look through panes of shaded glass
see the stains of winter’s grass .

can you now return to from where you came
try to burn your changing name
or with silver spoons and coloured light
will you worship moons in winter’s night .

clothes of sand have covered your face
given you meaning but taken my place
so make your way on down to the sea
something has taken you so far from me .

so the structure is pretty much this :

verse
chorus
verse x 2
chorus

that’s pretty much it . listen to the song to get it down .