He Drinks Alone chords by Bill Morrissey

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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got a little shop on the waterfront
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I open every spring
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And I cater to the tourist crowd
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Well, they'll buy you
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anything
And in the bar next door
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there's a string band
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They play those old Nantucket songs
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I put a grown man to sleep
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Christ, they're ninety -nine
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verses long
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When I was young, I went to sea
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When I was young,
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fishing was the life for me
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From the back deck of the bar next door
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I can look out on the bay
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And  watch the trawlers coming in
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I watch for my son's boat that way
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One by one they tie up
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the same stories always told
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Between the quotas and
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the foreign fleets
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There's no way to fill the
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holes
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Verse 2

When I was young I went to sea

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When I was young

fishing was the life for me

And I was

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thirty -nine years old
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when I quit my life at the sea
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That was the only thing
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my wife ever asked of me
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And back then the North Atlantic
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could bring a man a decent wage
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Well, I've tried to tell my son that,
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but you can't talk to those
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his age.
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When I was young, I went to sea.
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When I was young,
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fishing was the life for me
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I got a little shop on the waterfront
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Keeps me in smokes and gin
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I keep a place in my business open
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For when my son wants to
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come on in
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When I was young, I went to sea
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When I was young,
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fishing was the life for me  you