Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Safe at harbor,
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everything is easy
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Off to starboard,
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daylight comes up fast
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Now I'm restless for the
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open water
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Red flags are flying
fromhe Coast Guard mast
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They told me to stay,
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I heard all the in formation
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I motored away and steered
straight ahead
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Though the weathermansaid
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CHORUS There's a storm
Verse 2
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front coming
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(mood indigo)
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White water running and the
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pressure is low
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Storm front coming (mood indigo)
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Small craft warning on the radio
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Verse 3
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I've been sailing a long
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time on this ocean
Man gets lonesome,
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all those years at sea
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I've got a woman,
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my life should be easy
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Most men hunger for the life I
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lead
The morning was gray,
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but I had the motivation
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I drifted away and ran into more
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Heavy weather off shore
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Verse 4
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We've got a low pressure system
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and a northeast breeze
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We've got a falling ba
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rometer and rising seas
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We've got the
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cumulonimbus and a possible gale
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We've got a force nine blowing
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on the Beaufort scale
Verse 5
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I'm still restless
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for the open water
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Though she gives me
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everything I need
She asked me to stay,
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but I'd done my navigation
I drove her away,
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but I should have known
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To stay tied up at home
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Outro 1
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