Rolling Down To Old Maui chords by Todd Rundgren

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Intro 1

It's

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a damn tough life,
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full of toil and strife,
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We whalermen undergo,
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And we won't give a damn
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when the gales are done
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How hard the winds did blow,
For we're homeward bound
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from the Arctic grounds
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With a good ship taut and free,
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And we won't give a damn
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when we drink our rum
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With the girls from old Maui.

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Verse 2
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Rolling down to old Maui, me boys,
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Rolling down to old Maui,
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We're homeward bound from
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the Arctic grounds,
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Rolling down to old Maui.
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Once more we sail with the
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northerly gales
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Through the ice and wind and rain,
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Them coconut fronds,
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them tropical  shores,
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We soon shall see again;
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Six hellish months we've passed away
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On the cold Kamchatka sea,
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But now we're bound from the Arctic grounds,
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Rolling down to old Maui.
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Once more we sail with the Northerly gales,
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Towards our island home,
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Our whaling done,
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our mainmast sprung,
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And we
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ain't got far to  roam;
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Our stuns'l's bones is
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carried away,
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What care we for
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that sound,
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A living gale is after us,
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Thank God we're
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homeward bound.

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How soft the breeze   through
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the island trees,
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Now the ice is far astern,
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Them native maids,
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them tropical glades,
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Is awaiting our      return;
Even now their big brown
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eyes look out,
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Hoping some fine day to see,
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Our baggy sails,
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running 'fore the gales,
Rolling down to old Maui.

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And now we're anchored in the bay
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With the Kanaka's all around
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With chants  and soft aloha ois,
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They greet us homeward bound;
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And now ashore we'll have some     fun,
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We'll paint them beaches red;
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Awaken in the arms
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of  an island maid
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With a   big fat aching head.