Key: Eb major
Verse 1
D
A
D
We stand watching the horizon,
casting anxious, eager eyes
on all the little ships
Bm
G
E
A
as they go passing by.
how we're yearning
B
A
D
while we soon to see our ship again
Esus4
A
D
F#dim
st the sky.
Am
Em
will appreciate our feeling here.
A
D
A
What a tender welcome
D
G
we will give our friends,
Bm
Esus4
A
as their journey ends.
Em
D
Ddim
sailing in ,
A
D
A
we will shout our joy with a ship ahoy.
D
G
Em
Good or bad days will begin,
F#m
D
Bm
E
A
when we start unloading the gin.
Bm
A
Our guilty conscience
B
Em
We'll hail each prohibitionist a brother,
G
E
and sell a dozen cases to his mother,
Bb
D
A
when our ship comes sailing
Adim
Ebdim
in ,
B
Em
G
D
F
Bb
full of pagan, men.
Just imagine our position,
think of all the competition
that we've got along the
whole Atlantic shore.
Eb
C
F
Bb
From Southampton to Miami,
A
Dm
coast patrols of Uncle Sammy
Bb
C
F
Dm
claring open war.
F
time.
Gm
Bb
Ab
then they buy from us.
Db
Gb
Ab
Db
When our ship comes sailing in
Ab
Db
When our ship of dreams
Gb
Ab
through the harbor seams
Db
Gb
Db
When our glad days will begin
Ab
Db
Bbm
Eb
Ab
Mr. Bolstead, pardon our sin
Ab
Db
that will please ya
Gb
Ab
Ebm
Just give your girl a kiss
Db
Ebm
and she will squeeze ya
Ab
Eb
it with magnesia
Edim
Db
Ab
Ddim
When our ship comes sailing in
Bb
Gb
Db
Full of pagan, pagan, pagan
B
E
A
Gbm
Gb
When our ship comes sailing in
B
E
B
Every worry gone, now we'll carry on
E
A
Gbm
E
B
Let's wait when dreams come true
E
Dbm
Gb
B
Can you see your ship on the blue?
I do, we do
E
But oh, the risk, it's pain in us to tell of it
Dbm
Gbm
The money that we get is not all velvet
A
A
The cops take all our profits,
E
Gb
that's the hell of it!
B
E
When our ship comes sailing in ,
Db
A
Full of Hagen -Hagen gin!
Gbm
E
A
B
E
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