Siren Song by Michelle Dockrey

Intro: Vamp on C or something... whatever…  

   C  C  F  C       Oh, I'm just a singer from out on the coast
   C  C  G  G       Doing concerts wherever they're hirin'
   G  G  G7 G7      But good work's hard to find when your name is maligned
   G  F  C          So unkind is the life of a Siren!

C  C/G  C  C/G   It's not easy to shake off your lineage
C  F  G          I know everyone runs from their past
F  F  C  C       But it's not every artist whose record store deals
D  D  G          Involve tying execs to a mast
C  C/G  C  C/G   My mother won't come to my concerts
C  F  G          And she knows that she's wasting her breath
F  F  C  C       Still she begs me return to a good honest life
D  G  C          Of beckoning men to their death

   C  C  F  C       Oh I feel like a salmon who's swimming upstream
   C  C  G  G       And I'll tell you, the journey is tirin'
   G  G  G7 G7      So you think it's a splash? You'd be dead in a flash!
   G  F  C          Show compassion if you meet a Siren

C  C/G  C  C/G   I'm thinking of firing my agent
C  F  G          His business sense isn't quite sound
F  F  C  C       He booked me to play at the Lincoln Memorial
D  D  G          And half of the audience drowned
C  C/G  C  C/G   I once worked a Holiday Cruise line
C  F  G          But I took international heat
F  F  C  C       Just for pulling some whalers a smidgeon off course
D  G  C          And the bulk of the Soviet fleet

   C  C  F  C       Oh, how can I keep up a singing career
   C  C  G  G       If my fanboys are always expirin'
   G  G  G7 G7      I'm accused of assault, but it isn't my fault!
   G  F  C          Oy, gevalt! For the life of a Siren

C  C/G  C  C/G   The girls I meet all think it's glamorous
C  F  G          Making guys fall at your feet
F  F  C  C       It's not pretty at all when the amorous fall
D  D  G          Begins twenty floors up from the street
C  C/G  C  C/G   Oh and don't even mention Odysseus
C  F  G          To a hardworking singer like me
F  F  C  C       Now how would you feel if some out-of-town jerk
D  G  C          Tried to sneak in your concert for free?

   C  C  F  C       Oh my days are as filled with great woes and great ills
   C  C  G  G       As anything written by Byron
   G  G  G7 G7      If you think that it's grand, you can talk to the hand
   G  F  C          Understand what it's like for a Siren

C  C/G  C  C/G   So I cancelled all maritime venues
C  F  G          Things began to go passably well
F  F  C  C       I played Burning Man, Farm-Aid, the Winter Olympics,
D  D  G          Some lip-synching on SNL
C  C/G  C  C/G   But now just when I think of relaxing
C  F  G          My agent is back in the saddle
F  F  C  C       I've got a world tour, and the cities for sure
D  G  C     Include Venice, Dubai, and Seattle!

   C  C  F  C       Oh, they say it's not over 'til you-know-who sings
   C  C  G  G       So you might as well bring the whole choir in
   G  G  G7 G7      'Cause my sisters are jacked to get in on the act
   G  G  G7 G7      And Poseidon is looking to handle my bookings
   G  G  G7 G7      Next month I'll email ya from Sidney, Australia
   G  F  C          To regale ya with tales of a Siren!