SHY AS A VIOLET

                    by Melanie Safka Schekeryk

(Transcribed from a recording made during the As I See It Now sessions 1974,
with love to Dia from Ian (of Oz)...)

Scans from Ian of this songs are here

Capo:  2nd fret
Key:    B (played with capo in A)

A..............................D........E......
All of us start from the same place,

A......................................D...............E....................
...
with an open ticket and an awful lot of space to grow in,

A.....................................D........................
and some of us go far but some us go further

.......................A.........D.....................................
until it gets hard going' back where we came from

D...........................A........................
  And though I'm as Shy As A Violet

E.............................................
   most people don't please me,

.................F#m................D..
and feelings don't come easy

.................A............E..
when you don't belong;

..............A............................
but underneath the still waters

E.......................................
You may find the deep well,

...........F#m..................D........................E...........A...
hell - it ain't so far from heaven when you got no home.

A..................................................D...........E..
It's hard to make friends when they all become

A.......................................
  long distance 'phone calls;

......D....................E................
so many lines are disconnected.

A...........................
  All of my lines ring

.......D...............................
but some of them ring truer,

........................................A..
and friends can't be reached

.............D.............................
   with a song when I sing one

 D.........................A........................
  And though I'm as Shy As A Violet

E............................................
   most people don't please me,

E..................F#m..................D................A..............
   and feelings don't come easy when you don't belong;

E.............A.............................
   but underneath the still waters

E.......................................
you may find the deep well,

E............F#m..............D.............................E............A..
.
hell - it ain't so far from heaven when you've got no home.

A.................................E........................
  So I fly across country playin' my music,

F#m...............D.............A..................E...
  existing somewhere between two shores,

A........................................E..............................
  creating whirlpools, getting trapped in the swells,

E.........F#m..................D........................E........A.....
hell - it ain't so far from heaven when you got no home

....F#m................D.........................E..............F#m........
it ain't so far from heaven when you got no home, oh God

............................D.........................E..........F#m
It ain't so far from heaven when you got no home

F#m.....................D........................E...........F#m
It ain't so far from heaven when you got no home,

F#m....................D...........E...........F#m
Ain't so far from heaven

F#m.............................D.....E........F#m
and it ain't so far from heaven

F#m.............................D.....E........F#m..........etc.
well it ain't so far from heaven                          etc.