Key: E major
Verse 1
Ab
Abm
Ab
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
Eb
You can't make me stay,
I'm leaving today
It's anchors aweigh,
Ab
Abm
Ab
I'm shipping out to Tokyo Bay
Verse 3
Ab
There's a solemn little
geisha pining for me
Under a parasol out on the quay
Eb
She knows I'm coming
Ab
from beyond the sea
And she's hoping and a-
praying most fervently
Eb
That today's the day I come
Ab
smoking into Tokyo Bay
Verse 4
Db
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
Eb
Ab
the sands of Tokyo Bay
Interlude 1
Ab
Verse 5
Db
Well in a dim dockside canteen I know
With my collar turned up
and my cap down low
All dressed up like a matelot
Eb
Db
I got my grip in my hand packed ready to go
Eb
I'll be a
Verse 6
Ab
long gone daddy when
Abm
Ab
they find my note
But just for the record this
Abm
is what I wrote
Eb
Ab
Eb
You, you, you can't make me stay
I'm leaving today
So glad to say I'm heading
up the gangway
Ab
Bound for Tokyo Bay
Verse 7
Tokyo Bay
Ab
Abm
I'll be a long gone daddy
Ab
Be a long gone daddy
Long, long gone daddy
Long gone daddy, so long
Outro 1
That's all I wrote
Ab
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAb Abm Eb Db
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