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