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