Drag Race At Forty Fathoms chords by Junior Brown

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Verse 1
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It's a long way down
And there ain't no solid ground
It's a long way to go
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And that water gets cold
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At Forty Fathoms down
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It's a  long way down
It was a long time ago,
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workin' for the U .S .O.
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I just fin ished up a show,
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somebody asked if I could go
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Singin' Blasey Moore on a
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submarine boat,
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what if I don't go down below?
So I grabbed my old guitar,
when I got aboard that barge
I didn't know the guy in charge
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was known for racing cars,
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or any kind of mean machines,
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including submarines.
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He was captain of a hot rod u -boat,
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and he drove that thing
just like it was a car.
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What was on  his mind was that finish line,
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and pushing that reactor way too hard.
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Asked me if  I'd ever seen
a racing submarine,
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then I   heard one sailor say,
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They left a whole lot of hot tuna
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back there in Sacramento Bay
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Cause it's a long way down
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When you clownin' around
It's a long way to go
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when that water gets cold
Forty -five of them down,
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it's a long way down
I thought I must have flipped my weight
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To take that underwater gig
Somebody trying to race his rig
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While I'm trying to sing my song
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How can anybody play along
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With all that rocking going on?
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Cause with a nuclear reactor
in a submarine,
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you can't afford to mess around.
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I thought I heard a rock
knockin' under the hood,
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and I was prayin' that she
wouldn't melt down.
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When that other sub began
to catchin' up,
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she was pullin' 300 G's.
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Thought we might have side -swiped
some glacier ice,
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or bottomed out on Gizmo Beach,
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cause it's a long way down.
You clownin' around,
it's a long way to go
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When that water gets cold,
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that's 40 phallums down
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It's a long way down,
we finally made it back to town
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Now I'm back on solid ground,
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but I ain't a -goin' down
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It's time the boys was back in town
Course it's a long way down
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It's a long way down
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It's a long way down you