Key: E major
Verse 1
F#
F#m
F#
I'll be a long gone daddy
when you find my note
But just for the record this is what I wrote
I'm relocating to a foreign shore
You won't have me to
kick around no more
Verse 2
C#
You can't make me stay,
I'm leaving today
It's anchors aweigh,
F#
F#m
F#
I'm shipping out to Tokyo Bay
Verse 3
F#
There's a solemn little
geisha pining for me
Under a parasol out on the quay
C#
She knows I'm coming
F#
from beyond the sea
And she's hoping and a-
praying most fervently
C#
That today's the day I come
F#
smoking into Tokyo Bay
Verse 4
B
I'll find a liner, then my plan
To work my ticket as some kind of hand
Maybe picking up after the
cabaret band
Anything to get my toes in
C#
F#
the sands of Tokyo Bay
Interlude 1
F#
Verse 5
B
Well in a dim dockside canteen I know
With my collar turned up
and my cap down low
All dressed up like a matelot
C#
B
I got my grip in my hand packed ready to go
C#
I'll be a
Verse 6
F#
long gone daddy when
F#m
F#
they find my note
But just for the record this
F#m
is what I wrote
C#
F#
C#
You, you, you can't make me stay
I'm leaving today
So glad to say I'm heading
up the gangway
F#
Bound for Tokyo Bay
Verse 7
Tokyo Bay
F#
F#m
I'll be a long gone daddy
F#
Be a long gone daddy
Long, long gone daddy
Long gone daddy, so long
Outro 1
That's all I wrote
F#
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# F#m C# B
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