day of the clipper chords by Schooner Fare

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
You can see the squares
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C 
of canvas dancing over the horizon
You can feel the chanty wailing to
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the heaving of the men
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G 
You can feel the seas up to your knees
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F 
and you know the sea is rising
C 
And you know the clipper's
G 
day has come again

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Verse 2

To the men on high,

the bosun's cry commands a killing strain

Till every mother's son begins to pray ...

With a hearty shout,

she comes about as she heads into the rain

And the ship has never seen a better day

Verse 3
G 
Sailing ships and sailing men
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C 
will sail the open wa ters
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C 
Where the only thing that matters
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G 
is the wind inside the main
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G 
C 
So all you loving mothers keep your eyes
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upon your daughters
C 
G 
For the sails will mend their tatters and the mast
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s will rise again

Interlude 1

Verse 4
C 
Wooden beams and human dreams
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C 
are all that makes her go
And the magic of the wind
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upon her sails ...
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G 
She'd rather fight the weather
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F 
than the fishes down below
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G 
God help us if the rigging ever fails
C 
As the timber creaks, the captain

Verse 5
C 
F 
C 
speaks above the vessel's groan
'Til every soul on board
G 
can hear the call ...
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G 
It's nothing but the singing of
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F 
the ship inside her bones
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G 
C 
And this is when she likes it best of all
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Sailing ships and

Verse 6
sailing men
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C 
will sail the open waters
F 
C 
Where the only thing that matters
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G 
is the wind inside the main
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G 
C 
So all you loving mothers keep your eyes
F 
upon your daughters
C 
For the sails will mend their tatters and the mast
G 
C 
s  will rise again

Interlude 2

Verse 7
C 
Where the current goes,
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C 
the clipper's nose is plowing fields of green
Where fortune takes the crews,
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we wish them well ...
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G 
Where men could be when lost at sea
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F 
is somewhere in between
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G 
The regions of a heaven and a hell

Verse 8
C 
They're sailing eastern harbors
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C 
and the California shores
If you set your mind to see
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them then you can ...
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G 
As you count each mast go sailing
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F 
past you prouder than before
C 
Then you'll know the clipper's
G 
C 
day has come again

Verse 9
G 
F 
Sailing ships and sailing men
C 
will sail the open wa ters
F 
C 
Where the only thing that matters
F 
G 
is the wind inside the main
F 
G 
So all you loving mothers keep your
C 
F 
eyes upon your daughters
C 
For the sails will mend their tatters
G 
C 
and the masts will rise again
G 
Sailing ships and sailing

Verse 10
men
F 
C 
will sail the open wa ters
F 
C 
Where the only thing that matters
F 
G 
is the wind inside the main
F 
G 
So all you loving mothers keep your
C 
F 
eyes upon your daughters
C 
For the sails will mend their tatters
G 
C 
and the masts will rise again
F 
G 
So all you loving mothers keep your
C 
F 
eyes upon your daughters
C 
For the sails will mend their tatters and
G 
C 
the masts will rise again