Key: A major
Verse 1
himself ashore
Set seaboot down on cobblestone
he'd never trod before
A lone fog on the harbour
did obscure the rigging lights
And the terra firma tavern cast
Verse 2
a warm and glowing light
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Sing fare thee well
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Red evening sky
Verse 3
day he turned fourteen
On a merchant cargo steamer
bound for Kwajalein
By way of Cartagena he wound
up in Istanbul
Nineteen times around the horn
Verse 4
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well
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Red evening sky
Interlude 2
Home and dry
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Verse 5
could not smell the sea
Where they'd never seen a boat,
that's where he went to be
And they dressed him in his
peacoat, pulled his seaboots on
Stitched him in his hammock and
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well
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Red evening sky
Home and dry
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Verse 7
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Sing fare thee well
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Calm seas or swell
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Just close your eyes
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