Shanghied chords by Trini Lopez

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Verse 1
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 (G major) I  played around in
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Chinatown,  (C major) passin' the time away
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 (G major) When  (C major) blackjack red hit  (G major) me on the head,
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when  (C major) I  woke up next  (G major) day
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I was  (C major) many miles away  (G major) 
I was shanghaied on an ocean freighter,
I was shanghaied and I ain't no sailor
I was
Shanghai on an ocean freighter,
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I  (C major) want to get back to  (G major) shore, back  (C major) to the
Gulf
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Coast  (G major) shore.
They threw me off in old
Hong
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Kong and  (C major) put me on my  (G major) own, not a  (C major) penny in my  (G major) pocket,
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ten  (C major) thousand miles from  (G major) home.
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And that's a  (C major) mighty long way from  (G major) home.
Ž I was shanghaied on an ocean freighter
Ž
I was shanghaied and I ain't no sailor
Ž
I was shanghaied on an ocean freighter
Ž
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I  (C major) wanna get back to  (G major) shore
Ž
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Back  (C major) to the
Gold
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Coast  (G major) shore
Ž
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Pick it baby!  (C major) 
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Ž  (G major)  (C major)  (G major) 
I worked for grub on an old
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dutch tub and  (C major) wound up in
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L  (G major) .A.
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When a  (C major) pretty little girl took  (G major) me on a whirl,
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 (C major) when I woke up next  (G major) day, when  (C major) I  woke up next  (G major) 
day.
I was shanghaied for the rest of my life,
I was shanghaied, but that's alright, I was
shanghaied.
Got a pretty little wife and nev
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 (C major) er leaving home no  (G major) more
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Nev (C major) er leaving home no  (G major) more
Shake my hand, shake my hand,
shake my hand
Shake hand, shake my hand, shake my hand