Key: G major
Intro 1
C#
B
D#m
C#
B
D#m
C#
B
D#m
C#
B
D#m
C#
Verse 1
B
F#
C#
way to Shanghai through the vast China Sea
G#m
D#m
The topsails are full but we're
B
C#
light on the breeze
F#
B
With a good clip down channel,
F#
C#
and the passage looks calm
D#m
C#
F#
clipper just rolling along
Verse 2
B
F#
C#
D#m
Rolling along, boys, rolling along
B
F#
And there's naught like a clipper
C#
F#
just rolling along
Verse 3
F#
C#
the Cape of Good Hope
G#m
D#m
There's sandbars and reefs, boys,
B
C#
and they'll give you a grope
F#
B
To you skippers so daring,
F#
C#
don't act too cock- sure
G#m
D#m
Or your ship may be wrecked
C#
F#
and you'll sail her no more
Verse 4
F#
C#
D#m
more, boys, sail her no more
B
F#
Or your ship may be wrecked
C#
F#
and you'll sail her no more
Verse 5
F#
B
There's pirates in waiting
F#
C#
and storms to be tamed
G#m
D#m
The shoals all bear names of the
B
C#
boats that they claimed
F#
B
But under our feet the warm
F#
C#
waters that roll
G#m
D#m
Are blue as cut sapphires
C#
F#
and shining like gold
Verse 6
B
F#
C#
D#m
Shining like gold, boys, shining like gold
B
F#
C#
As blue as cut sap phires and shining
D#m
C#
B
D#m
C#
Verse 7
F#
B
Now our cargo is loaded and we
F#
C#
catch the dawn tide
G#m
D#m
I can bare see the vessels
B
C#
I race for the prize
F#
B
In the docks back in London,
F#
C#
they wait for to see
G#m
D#m
The sails of our clipper
C#
F#
and the first stalk of tea
Verse 8
F#
C#
D#m
tea, boys, first stalk of tea
B
F#
For the sails of our clipper and the
C#
F#
first stalk of tea
Verse 9
F#
B
F#
C#
Catching the westerly's haul every hand
D#m
B
C#
give all she can stand
F#
B
For heart then for home,
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C#
I hear calling me on
G#m
D#m
And there's naught like a clipper,
C#
F#
just rolling along
B
Rolling
Verse 10
F#
C#
D#m
along, boys, rolling along
F#
C#
D#m
clipper just rolling along
B
Rolling
Verse 11
F#
C#
D#m
along, boys, rolling along
F#
C#
clipper just rolling along
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