Tom: C
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We are two mariners
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Our ship's sole survivors
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In this belly of a whale
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It's ribs are ceiling beams
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It's guts are carpeting
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I guess we have some time to kill
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You may not remember me
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I was a child of three
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And you, a lad of eighteen
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But, I remember you
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And I will relate to you
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How our histories interweave
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At the time you were
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A rake and a roustabout
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Spending all your money
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On the whores and hounds
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(oh, oh)
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You had a charming air
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All cheap and debonair
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My widowed mother found so sweet
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And so she took you in
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Her sheets still warm with him
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Now filled with filth and foul disease
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As time wore on you proved
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A debt-ridden drunken mess
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Leaving my mother
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A poor consumptive wretch
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(oh, oh)
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And then you disappeared
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Your gambling arrears
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The only thing you left behind
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And then the magistrate
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Reclaimed our small estate
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And my poor mother lost her mind
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Then, one day in spring
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My dear sweet mother died
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But, before she did
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I took her hand as she, dying, cried
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(oh, oh)
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"Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
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His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
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Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
E ( F E )
Of his grave"
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It took me fifteen years
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To swallow all my tears
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Among the urchins in the street
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Until a priory
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Took pity and hired me
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To keep their vestry nice and neat
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But, never once in the employ
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these holy men
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Did I ever, once turn my mind
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From the thought of revenge
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(oh, oh)
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One night I overheard
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The prior exchanging words
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With a penitent whaler from the sea
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The captain of his ship
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Who matched you toe to tip
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Was known for wanton cruelty
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The following day
I shipped to sea
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With a privateer
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And in the whistle
Of the wind
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I could almost hear
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(oh, oh)
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"Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
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His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
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Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
E ( F E )
Of his grave
C G
There is one thing I must say to you
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As you sail across the sea
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Always, your mother will watch over you
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As you avenge this wicked deed"
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And then, that fateful night
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We had you in our sight
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After twenty months at sea
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Your starboard flank abeam
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I was getting my muskets clean
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When came this rumbling from beneath
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The ocean shook
The sky went black
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And the captain quailed
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And before us grew
The angry jaws
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Of a giant whale
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(oh.. oOoH)
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Don't know how I survived
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The crew all was chewed alive
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I must have slipped between his teeth
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But, oh, what providence
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What divine intelligence
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That you should survive
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As well as me
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It gives my eye great joy
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To see your eyes fill with fear
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To lean in close
And I will whisper
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The last words you'll hear
F E
(oh, oh)
[Final] Am F Am E
F E Am
