Key: G major
Verse 1
G
C
G
Good Dr. Brown,
C
G
he fell in love with a girl with sleeves of such rosy silk
C
Am
But her dark eye s roved away,
C
G
C
away like the soaring gulls on the wine- dark sea
G
C
One night he begged she be his bride but she said,
G
C
"no, it can not be
Am
C
Just like the gulls, with their hungry cries
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C
I love you less than the wine- dark tide"
Verse 2
F
C
How he did brood on such cruel words
G
Am
and those rosy sleeves of shining silk
And knocked a gull from the wine-
Interlude 1
G
C
G
C
Am
C
G
C
Verse 3
G
C
In twilight dusk, in a black eel ditch,
F
C
the doctor burned wormwood and pitch
Am
C
And with a fist of graveyard dirt he begged
G
C
the night for that wine- dark heart
F
C
There she came with those rosy sleeves to
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Am
touch his lips with such a wine- dark kiss
G
C
G
His black top hat to the breeze it went and his
Am
G
C
G
But though he flapped and fought to fly those rosy sleeves held him,
Outro 1
Am
C
G
C
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ChordsG C Am F
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