Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Consider me a widow, boys
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And I will tell you why
It's not the man
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F#m
G#m
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But it's the marriage that was drowned
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So I walk the walk And
Verse 2
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wait with watchful
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eye up to the sky
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G#m
Looking for a kind of vessel
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I have never found
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Verse 3
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Though I saw it splinter
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I keep looking out to sea
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Like a dog with little sense
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I keep returning
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To the very area
Verse 4
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Where I did see the thing go down
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As if there's something at the site
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I should be learning
Verse 5
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That line is the horizon
F#sus4
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We watch the wind and set the sail
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But save ourselves
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when all omens
F#sus4
Point to fail
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Verse 6
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And if I tell the truth
G#m
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Then I would have to tell
Bsus4
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you this
F#m
Though I grieve and believe
G#m
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I feel it truly
F#m
But I knew the ship was
Verse 7
G#m
empty
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By the time it hit the rocks
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F#m
'Cause we could not hold on
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When fate became unruly
Verse 8
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G#m
So consider me a widow, boys
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G#m
And I have told you why
F#m
Does the weather say
G#m
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G#m
A better day is nearing?
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I'll set
Verse 9
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G#m
my house in order now
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And wait upon the will
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'Cause it's clear that I need
G#m
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Better skill in steering
Verse 10
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That line is the horizon
F#sus4
F#
F#m
B
We watch the wind and set the sail
F#
F#m
But save ourselves
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B
when all omens
F#sus4
Point to fail
F#
F#m
A
Verse 11
B
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That line is the horizon
F#sus4
F#
F#m
B
We watch the wind and set the sail
F#
F#m
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B
But save ourselves when all omens
F#sus4
Point to fail
Outro 1
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