Shore Leave chords by
John Hammond
John Hammond

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Key: Bb minor
Verse 1
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Well with buck shot
eyes and a purple heart
I rolled down the national stroll
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And with a big fat paycheck
Strapped to my hip sack
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And a shore leave wristwatch underneath
My sleeve
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In a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels
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I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank
And I'd left all my papers
on the Ticonderoga
And was in a bad need of a shave
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And so I slopped at the corner
on cold chow mein
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An d shot billards with a midget
Until the rain stopped
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And I bought a long sleeved shirt
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With horses on the front
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And some gum and a lighter and a knife
And a new deck of cards
(with girls on the back)
And I sat down and wrote a
letter to my wife
Verse 2
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And I said Baby,
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I'm so far away from home
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And I miss my Baby so
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I can't make it by myself
I love you so
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Verse 3
Well I was pacing myself
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Trying to make it all last
Squeezing all the life
Out of a lousy two day pass
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And I had a cold one
at the Dragon
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With some Filipino floor show
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And talked baseball with a lieutenant
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Over a Singapore sling
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And I wondered how the same
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moon outside
Over this Chinatown fair
Could look down on Illinois
And find you there
And you know I love you Baby
Verse 4
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And I'm so far away from home
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And I miss my Baby so
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I can't make it by myself
I love you so
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Verse 5
Shore Leave.
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Shore Leave.
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