Tom: Am
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[Verse]
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We are two Mariners, our ship's sole survivors, in this belly of a whale
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Its ribs our ceiling beams, its guts our carpeting, I guess we have some time
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to kill. You may not remember me, I was a child of three, and you a lad of
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eighteen. But I remember you, and I will relate to you, how our histories
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interweave.
[Chorus]
F Am F
At the time you were a rake and a rastabout. Spending all your money on the
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whores and hounds. Oh-oh.
[Verse]
Am
You had a charming air, all cheap and debonair, my widowed mother found so
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sweet. And so she took you in, her sheets still warm with him, now filled
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with filth and foul disease.
[Chorus]
F Am F
As time wore on you proved a debt-ridden drunken mess. Leaving my mother a
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poor consumptive wretch. Oh-oh.
[Verse]
Am
And then you disappeared. Your gambling arrears, the only thing you left
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behind. And then the magistrate, reclaimed our small estate, and my poor
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mother lost her mind.
[Chorus]
F Am F
Then one day in spring my dear, sweet mother died. But before she did I took
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her hand as she dying cried, Oh-oh,
[Bridge]
Dm Am
"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters,
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drag him to a hole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his
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grave, oh-oh."
[Verse]
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It took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears, among the urchins in the
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street. And then a priory, took pity and hired me to keep their vestry nice
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and neat.
[Chorus]
F Am F
But never once in the employ of these holy men, did I ever once turn my mind
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from the thought of revenge. Oh-oh.
[Verse]
Am (harsh double strum for this part)
One night I overheard, the prior exchanging words with a penetant whaler from
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the sea. The captain of his ship, who matched you toe to tip, was known for a
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wanton cruelty.
[Chorus]
F Am F
The following day I shipped to sea with the privateer. And in the whistle of
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the wind I could almost hear, oh-oh.
[Bridge]
Dm Am
"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters,
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drag him to a whole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his
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grave.
[Interlude]
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There is one thing I must say to you, as you sail across the sea. Always your
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mother will watch over you, as you avenge this wicked deed.
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[Verse]
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And then one fateful night, we had you in our sights, after 20 months at sea.
Your starboard flank abeam, I was getting my muskets clean, when came this
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rumbling from beneath.
[Chorus]
F Am F
The ocean shook, the sky went black and the captain quailed. And before us
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grew the angry jaws of a giant whale, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh.
[Verse]
Am
Don't know how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive, I must have slipped
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between his teeth. But oh what providence, what divine intelligence, that you
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should survive as well as me.
[Chorus]
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It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear. So lean in close
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and I will whisper the last words you'll hear, oh-oh.
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