Key: C major
Verse 1
F
C
we're in fairing rain
C
G
It's there on the deep
Am
Esus4
that we harvest and reap our bread
Am
C
G
As we hunt upon the shoals of heaven
C
F
C
It was a fine and a pleasant day
C
G
F
Am
As a cabin boy on a sailing wag on
C
F
G
Fought to go and hunt the shoals of the air
F
G
C
d the hours were long
But the treatment surely
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G
There was little kindness
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Am
an d a kick -spinning
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G
C
shoulders of the airing
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G
I was cook and I'd a quarter -sharing
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G
F
Am
And I used to sleep standing on my feet
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G
shows you'd be in
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F
C
Am
C
F
C
Am
G
F
C
A
Am
G
F
C
F
C
We left the home grounds
in the month of June
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G
F
With a hundred crowns of silver dollars
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C
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G
C
Now you're up on deck,
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C
G
C
you're a fisherman
Come swear and show a
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G
Take a turn and watch with
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Am
all the other fellows
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G
the shoals of February
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C
G
C
d the living gale
Just to earn your daily bread
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G
F
From the Dover Straits to
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F
G
C
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C
While you're following the shores of Fairbairn
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C
F
C
Am
G
Am
F
C
Am
G
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C
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C
I've earned my keep and I paid my way
G
C
and caught ten million fishes
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Esus4
Am
We were follow
C
Dm
ing the shoals of heaven
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F
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Am
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F
C
Am
G
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G
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You
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