old admirals chords by
Al Stewart

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Verse 1
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I can well recall the first
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time I ever put to sea
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It was on the old
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'Calcutta' in 1853
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I was just a lad of fourteen years,
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a midshipman to be
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To make my way in sailing ships of the
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Royal Navy
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Verse 2
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By the time that I was twenty- one I'd
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sailed the world around
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Weathered storms in the China seas
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with the hatches battened down
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And made my way by starlight
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off the coast of Newfoundland
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And dined on beer and herrings while the
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waves blew all around
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Verse 3
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I live in retirement now
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And through my window comes
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the sound of seagulls
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And sets my mind remembering
The evening stars like memories sail
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far beyond the distant trees
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Way out across the open seas
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I hear them sing

Verse 4
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Oh the wooden ships they turned
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to iron and the iron ships to steel
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And shed their sails like au tumn leaves
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with the turning of the wheel
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And I was given captain's rank
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A A 
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and soon took under me
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The proudest ship that ever
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sailed for queen and country
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Interlude 1

F#m

Verse 5
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Ah, the old queen she passed away with the new born cen tury
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And I received my call
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ing up to the admiralty
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The sands ran through the hourglass
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each day more rapidly
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As we watched the growing of  the fleets
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of high Germany
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Verse 6

So at last the Great War blazed

I waited with the passing days

The call to arms that never came

Writing letters

Verse 7

I may be old now in your eyes

But all my years have made me wise

You don't see where the danger lies

Oh call me back, call me back

Verse 8
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But the war it ran its course,
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they could find no use for me
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And  I live in the country now,
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grandchildren on my knee
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And sometimes think in all this
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world the saddest thing to be
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Old admirals who feel the wind, and  never put to sea

Interlude 2
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Em Em 
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Verse 9
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Now just like you I've sailed my dreams
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like ships across the sea
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D D 
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And some of them they've come on rocks,
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and some faced mutiny
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D D 
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And when they're sunken one by
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one I'll join that company
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Old admirals who feel the wind,
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and  never put to sea
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G G 
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