Key: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I'll tell you the tale of the Nancy Lee
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The ship that caught shipwrecked at sea
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The bravest man was Captain Brown
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All the crew were in despair
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Some rushed here
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But the captain sat in the captain's chair
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as the ship went down
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The boatswain said to Stoker Jim
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You'll have to teach me how to swim
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The stoker answered with a frown
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The captain said to Fireman Moe
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Get straight into your fireman's clothes
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And while you stand and play your hose
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I shall play me ukulele
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Bm
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as the ship goes down
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The captain's
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wife was on the ship
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And he was glad she'd made the trip,
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As she could swim, she might not drown,
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and the bow -string's lame,
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And my G -string's flat, but all the same,
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as the ship goes down.
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And that is the tale of the Nancy Lee,
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The ship that got shipwrecked at sea,
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Captain Brown, who in command,
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now plays his ukulele
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in the Mermaid Band.
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An d he played his ukulele
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as the ship went down.
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Outro 1
I'm doing good. I'm doing good.
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