Key: C# minor•
Verse 1
G#
C#m
began an awful tale.
I'll tell you about the flotsam class
C#m
G#
G#m
From Ravage Quay straight out to sea
C#m
B
and twice around the place.
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G#
G#m
The first craft at the halfway mark
swept the gallant Thunderbird
C#m
B
Was staggering so far behind
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B
C#m
we thought she still was bored
G#
C#m
G#
The Thunderbird came tacking down
but a lad of seventeen,
His youthful indiscretion
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B
He put his fingers to his nose
round a tear in every eye
And as the tale began again,
The stranger's heart,
C#m
B
we all could tell,
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G#
C#m
B
was very nearly broke
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G#
The drink ing gourd come in to view,
She overhauled the grubby jean,
C#m
B
And Johnny Pizer cursed aloud,
Well when the race was over
G#m
B
we all rushed with wild surmise
C#m
G#
To learn the mighty secret
G#
C#m
Her smirking captain faced the crowd,
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B
C#m
B
We simply took a good long breath
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B
C#m
and blew her across the line
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
B
C#m
G#
The stranger paused,
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G#
B
I'll tell you who I am,
and whence I came
C#m
G#
I'm just a crazy sailing man,
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B
C#m
John Pizer was my name
G#
C#m
G#
I tried the trick to no avail,
He gasped,
and he fell dead across the bar,
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC#m B G# G#m
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