Key: D major
Verse 1
D
Em
On Fridays we'd go down to the river
A
D
To that little Greek cafe
We'd anchovies and drink red Sina wine
G
Em
A
You know it seems
like only yesterday
D
Em
He taught me to fear the hurricanes
A
D
A
D
And how to feed my family from the sea
He knew from hard times,
Em
A
I knew this from the time
G
D
And I looked like him, and I talked like him
A
D
And sometimes he even looked like me
D
Bm
he was the best of Irish men,
Em
A
D
for old man and the sea.
A
D
it was dangerous work in those days.
But he'd spend every idle hour
G
Em
A
Fishin' with me for
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D
It was the only bond a good man had
To love your woman
Em
A
D
That good man was my dad.
G
D
And I looked like him, and I talked like him,
A
D
And sometimes he even looked like me.
D
Bm
was the best of Irish men,
Em
A
D
B
the old man and the sea
B
E
sweet sixteen when they fell in love
A Catholic Portuguese,
A
F#m
pretty as you please
E
Esus4
E
think of
A
F#m
How does a father bear that pain?
A
E
And I looked like him, and I talked like him,
B
E
and sometimes he even looked like me
E
C#m
F#m
he was the best of Irish men
B
E
The old man and the sea
Esus4
E
An d when he'd
B
E
I could see it in his eyes
A
F#m
You'd climb aboard his little boat
B
E
And sail way out yonder into the tide
Esus4
E
An d at sunset he'd
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Esus4
E
He'd pick me up in
A
F#m
B
his big strong arms
F#m
B
E
and sometimes he even looked like me
E
C#m
he was the best of Irish men
F#m
B
E
The old man and the sea
F#m
B
E
C#m
F#m
The old man and the sea
B
E
My old man and the sea.
I miss you so much, Papa.
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