Ode to Big Blue chords by
Gordon Lightfoot

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Key: B minor•

Verse 1
Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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Bm Bm 2
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Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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The oceans   of the world
were the home of big blue
Bm Bm 2
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He was the greatest monster that
Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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the world ever     knew
And the place that he loved best
Was the waters to the west
Bm Bm 2
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F#m F#m 2
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Around the blue Pacific he did roam
Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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Verse 2
Big Blue moved alone for
a mighty blue was he
Bm Bm 2
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And the battles of the whales was
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an awesome sight    to see
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And he took them one by one and he
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drove them all      away
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In the mating of the day he
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was      the king

Verse 3
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Bm Bm 2
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Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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Bm Bm 2
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Big blue     had fifty wives and he
Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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sired forty    sons
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Though most of them feel victim
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to the cruel harpoon  guns
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Ah but he was too much wise to get
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caught by the   gunners' eyes
Bm Bm 2
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Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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Bm Bm 2
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And so he lived at sea

Interlude 1

a hundred years

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Bsus2

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Verse 4
Bm Bm 2
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Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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Bm Bm 2
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His mouth was      as large as a
Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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Bm Bm 2
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tunnel so they     say
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Bm Bm 2
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His hide was thick as leather and
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his eyes quick and small
And his back was all scarred
by the times he got away
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And he knew the smell of

Interlude 2

whalers did Big Blue

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Bsus2

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Verse 5
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Bm Bm 2
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Big Blue     passed away to his
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natural decay
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Beside the Arctic Circle as
he travelled up that way
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Bm Bm 2
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And      there never was a man who was born
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with a gunner's hand
Who ever took a pan to Big

Interlude 3

Blue

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Bsus2

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Bsus2

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Now the

Verse 6
Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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gray whale    has run and
the sperm is almost done
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The finbacks and the Greenland rights
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have all passed   and gone
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Bm Bm 2
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They've  been taken by the men for
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the money they could spend
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And the killing never ends,
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Bm Bm 2
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it just     goes on

Verse 7
Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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The oceans of the earth were
the home of big blue
Bm Bm 2
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He was the greatest monster
that the world ever knew
Bsus2 Bsus2 2
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Bm Bm 2
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And the place that he loved best was
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the waters to the west
Bm Bm 2
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Around the blue Pacific he did roam

Outro 1

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