Excursion Around the Bay chords by 
Great Big Sea 
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Key: F# minor•
Verse 1
F#m
Well it was on this Monday morning
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C
F#m
And the day be calm and fine
A harbor grace excursion
With the boys who had the time
And just before the sailor
A
Took the gangway from the pier
F#m
A
I saw some fellow haul me wife
Aboard as a volunteer
F#m
[Chorus] Oh me, oh my,
Verse 2
F#m
A
I heard me old wife cry
Bsus4
A
Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die!
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say,
F#m
A
"I wish I'd never taken this excursion
E#
F#m
around the bay"
A
We had fourteen hundred
Verse 3
F#m
souls aboard,
oh what a splendid sight!
B
F#m
Left strong and regiment al
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to make our spirits bright
F#m
And meself being in the double,
E#
when a funny thing s they'd say
A
They choke themselves from laughing
when they'd see us in the bay
F#m
E#
Verse 4
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[Chorus]
Bsus4
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E
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Me wife
E#
she got no better,
she turned a sickly green
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A
I fed her cake and candy,
E#
fat pork and kerosene
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F#m
A
Castor Oil and sug ar of candy,
I rubbed pure oil on her face
F#m
E#
F#m
A
F#m
And I said she'll be a dandy when we reaches Harbor
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E#
F#m
Grace!
Interlude 1
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B
Bsus4
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E
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F#m
A
E#
[Chorus] My wife she got no
Verse 5
F#m
better ,
E#
my wife me darling dear
E
A
The screeches from her trolley
could hear in Carbonear
F#m
I tried every place in Harbor Grace,
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E
Tried every store and shop,
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To get her something for a cure or take her to
F#m
the hop
Interlude 2
F#m
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E
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E#
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E#
A
[Chorus]
Verse 6
She died below the brandy's
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as we were coming back
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G
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We buried her in the ocean,
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A
wrapped up in a Uni on Jack
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So now I am a single man,
E#
in search of a pretty face
F#m
A
And the woman that says she'll have me,
I'm off for Harbor Grace!
Outro 1
[Chorus]
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E
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Bsus4
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF#m A C Bsus4 E#...
F#m
A
C
Bsus4
E#
B
E
G
Capo: 2
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