A Sailor's Misfortune chords by Dave Loggins

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Well,

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I pardoned me for staring
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and as I tipped my head
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May I ask why you're strolling all alone?
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The dock's no place for a lady
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at an hour such as this
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Would you mind if I should go
and walk you home?
What age have you become?
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She answered slowly
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Kind sir, I'll be seventeen my birthday
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Oh, may I compliment your age
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to match your beauty
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A blushing smile was
quick to turn her away
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Ah, but the crewmen they say they know
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They said they seen her on the dock before
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And there's a barnacle of truth
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that her name is Ruth
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And she lives in a house of whores
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So I really shouldn't feel so bad
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When I can let it go as a sailor's
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misfortune
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Well, do you live near by, my lady?
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And as I was hoping so
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She said a short time over
there amid the trees
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Oh, and my dad has been a fisherman
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most all his life
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He works the nets to raise a family
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Oh, well, will I see you on the morrow
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as we reached her door?
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A tap upon my cheek, her answer, no
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She gently closed the door
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and as she waved her hand
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I turned to find my way back to my home
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All the crewmen they say they know,
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they said they seen her on a dock before
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And there's a barnacle of truth
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that her name was Ruth
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and she lives in a house of whores
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So I really shouldn't feel so bad
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When I can let it go as a sailor's
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misfortune
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A morning came and I
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hurried down to the levee
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To  anxiously await her to appear
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And it was only after
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empty hours of hoping
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That I realized she
never would be there
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Oh well, it was a good day just to be alive
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Funny though, I forgot to ask her name
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Well, maybe she'll return some night,
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so I'll wait for her
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But perhaps it's best she
lives within my dreams
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Oh, because a crewman they say they know
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They said they seen her on a dock before
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And there's a barnacle of truth
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that her name was Ruth
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And she lives in  a house of whores
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So I really don't feel so bad
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When I've let it go as a
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sailor's misfortune
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La la la la...
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