Cruel Mistress chords by Flogging Molly

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Verse 1
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Next   time out to sea bring
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enough soil to bury me
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For I don't want my final jig in the belly of
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Am 
a squid
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Next time out to sea bring
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enough soil to bury me
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For I   don't want my fi nal
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jig in the belly of a squid
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Take my trousers

Verse 2
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take my shirt
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just give me that sweet dirt
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For the wa  ter's cold and grim
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and I never did learn to swim
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No her love never set me free
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so I set off for the ocean
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Now in my dreams she comes to
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me  whispering of peace
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But I've known since the day
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that we sailed for santiago
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Em 
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Her dry embrace would kiss my face no never,
no more
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The sea

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Verse 3

is a cruel mistress

Yeah the sea is a cruel mistress

Interlude 1

Many moons

Verse 4
to
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the day that I threw her love away
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Now every whale spouts, go to hell
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As the wind laughs in my face
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I've grown harder on the eye
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s and salty on the taste
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My pride has gone with the wake
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as I wait a cold wet grave
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I rose to the smell of a wet desert hell
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And I thought to myself
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how'd I wind up in this jail
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Till a voice called to me from
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deep within the sea
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Dry your eyes my dear fisher
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man your ass belongs to me

Verse 5

The sea is a cruel mistress

Yeah the sea is a cruel mistress

Verse 6
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The
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earth will rest my bones lord I know,
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lord I know
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But I'll see you when I get home from the cold,

Interlude 2

yeah from the cold

Verse 7
Em 
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No her love never set me free so
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I set off for the ocean
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Now in  my dreams she comes
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Em 
to me whispering of peace
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But I've known since the day
Em 
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that we sailed for santiago
Am 
G 
B 
Her dry embrace would kiss my face no never,
no more
Em 

Verse 8

The sea is a cruel mistress

Verse 9

Next time out to sea bring enough

soil to bury me

For I don't want my final jig

in the belly of a squid

Verse 10

Next time out to sea bring

enough soil to bury me

For in my dreams she comes to

Verse 11
me whispering of peace
Em 
B 
Next time out to sea bring
Em 
B 
enough soil to bury me
Am 
G 
For I   don't want my fi
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Em 
nal jig in the belly of  a squid