Drunken Boat chords by
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Key: C minor•

Intro 1

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Verse 1
Cm Cm 3
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The wind was whipping
G G 
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shingle through the windows in the town
A hail of stones across the roof,
Cm Cm 3
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the slates came raining down
A blade of light upon the spit came
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sweeping through the roar
G G 
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With me head in side a barrel and

Verse 2
me leg screwed in the floor
Cm Cm 3
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Mother pack me bags because
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I'm off to foreign parts
Don't ask me where I'm going 'cause
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Cm Cm 3
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Fm Fm 
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Cm Cm 3
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I'm sure it's off the charts
I'll pin your likeness on the wall
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right by  my sleeping head
G G 
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I'll send you cards and letters so
you'll know that I'm not dead

Verse 3
Cm Cm 3
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By this time in a week I should
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be far away from home
Trailing fingers through the phospor or
Cm Cm 3
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asleep in flowers of foam
From Macao to Acapulco from
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Havana to Seville
G G 
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We'll see monoliths and bridges
and the Christ up on the hill

Verse 4
G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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An aria with the Russians at
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the piano in the bar
With ice floes through the window
Cm Cm 3
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we raised glasses to the Czar
We squared off on a dockside with
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a couple a hundred Finns
G G 
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We dallied in the 'dilly and we
soaked ourselves in gin

Verse 5
Fm Fm 
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Cm Cm 3
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Now the only deck that I'd want to walk
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Are the stalks of corn
Cm Cm 3
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beneath my feet
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Cm Cm 3
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And the only sea I want to sail
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Is the darkned pond in
the scented dusk
Where a kid grow's full of sadness
Let's all go drifting out into the even
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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ing sun

Interlude 1

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Verse 6
Cm Cm 3
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We sailed through constellations
G G 
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and were rutted by the storm
I crumpled under cudgel blows
Cm Cm 3
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and finally came ashore
I spent the next two years or more
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just staring at the wall
G G 
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We went to sea to see the world
and what d'you think we saw?

Verse 7
Cm Cm 3
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If we turned the table upside down
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and sailed around the bed
Clamped knives between our teeth and
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tied bandannas round our heads
With the wainscot our horizon and
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the ceiling as the sky
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You'd not expect that anyone
would go and fuckin' die

Verse 8
Fm Fm 
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Cm Cm 3
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Now the only deck that I'd want to walk
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Are the stalks of corn
Cm Cm 3
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beneath my feet
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Cm Cm 3
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And the only sea I want to sail
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Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk
Where a kid grow's full of sadness
Let us all go drifting out into
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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the evening sun

Verse 9
Cm Cm 3
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At nights we passed the bottle round
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and drank to our lost friends
We lay alone upon our bunks
Cm Cm 3
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and prayed that this would end
A wall of moving shadows with
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rows of swinging keys
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We dreamed that whole Leviathans
lay rotting in the weeds

Verse 10
Cm Cm 3
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There's a sound that comes from miles
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away if you lean your head to hear
A ship's bell rings on board a wreck
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when the air is still and clear
And up above that means another
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angel's got his wings
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But all below it signifies is
a ship's gone in the drink

Verse 11
Fm Fm 
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Cm Cm 3
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Now the only deck that I'd want to walk
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Are the stalks of corn
Cm Cm 3
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beneath my feet
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Cm Cm 3
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And the only sea I want to sail
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Is the darkned pond in
the scented dusk
Where a kid grow's full of sadness
Cm Cm 3
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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Let us all go drifting out into the evening sun

Outro 1
Cm Cm 3
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Cm Cm 3
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Eb Eb 6
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Fm Fm 
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Cm Cm 3
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Eb Eb 6
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Fm Fm 
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Ab Ab 4
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Cm Cm 3
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Eb Eb 6
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Ab Ab 4
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Cm Cm 3
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Eb Eb 6
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Fm Fm 
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Ab Ab 4
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Cm Cm 3
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Eb Eb 6
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Ab Ab 4
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Cm Cm 3
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