Excursion Around the Bay chords by
Great Big Sea

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Key: F# minor

Verse 1
Em Em 
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Well it  was on this Monday morning
G G 
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Bb Bb 
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Em Em 
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And the day be calm and fine
A harbor grace excursion
With the boys who had the time
And just before the sailor
G G 
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Took the gangway from the pier
Em Em 
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G G 
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I saw some fellow haul me wife
Aboard as a volunteer
Em Em 
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[Chorus] Oh me, oh my,

Verse 2
Em Em 
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G G 
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I heard me old wife cry
Asus4 Asus4 
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G G 
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Oh me,   oh my, I think I'm gonna die!
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say,
Em Em 
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G G 
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"I wish I'd never taken this excursion
D# D# 6
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Em Em 
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around the bay"
G G 
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We had fourteen hundred

Verse 3
Em Em 
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souls aboard,
oh what a splendid sight!
A A 
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Em Em 
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Left strong and regimental
G G 
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to make our spirits bright
Em Em 
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And meself being in the double,
D# D# 6
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when a funny things   they'd say
G G 
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They choke themselves from laughing
when they'd see us in the bay
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D# D# 6
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Verse 4
G G 
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[Chorus]
Asus4 Asus4 
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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Me       wife
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she got no better,
she turned a sickly green
D D 
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G G 
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I fed her cake and candy,
D# D# 6
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fat pork and kerosene
G G 
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Em Em 
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G G 
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Castor Oil and sugar of candy,
I rubbed pure oil on her face
Em Em 
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D# D# 6
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Em Em 
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G G 
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Em Em 
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And I said she'll be a dandy when we reaches Harbor
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D# D# 6
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Em Em 
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Grace!

Interlude 1

Asus4

[Chorus] My wife she got no

Verse 5
Em Em 
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better,
D# D# 6
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my wife me darling dear
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G G 
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The screeches from her trolley
could hear in Carbonear
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I tried every place in Harbor Grace,
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D D 
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Tried every store and shop,
G G 
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To get her something for a cure or take her to
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the hop

Interlude 2

[Chorus]

Verse 6
She died below the brandy's
D# D# 6
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as we  were coming back
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F F 
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G G 
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We buried her in the ocean,
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G G 
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wrapped up in a Union Jack
D D 
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So now I am a single man,
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in search of a pretty face
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G G 
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And the woman that says she'll have me,
I'm off for Harbor Grace!

Outro 1

[Chorus]

Asus4

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