Gordon Lightfoot – High And Dry (Ukulele)

Capo 1
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Chords

INTRO C C C C VERSE 1
        C         C
 With a lady-like devotion

     C                C
 She sails the bitter ocean

       F                   F
 If it wasn't for lovesick sailors

            F                C
 There'd be nothin' left but flotsam
CHORUS
         G         F
 Singin' why me oh my

            C               F
 Is there a better man than I

            C                  G
 I hope you find your way back home

            C            F
 Before you lie high and dry

            C                  G
 I hope you find your way back home

            C      G
 Before you die
VERSE 2
     C               C
 Her sails blow like bubbles

          C             C
 While ya sip yer daily doubles

        F                     F
 If she wasn't so fond of the weather

           F                  C
 She might give the deckhands trouble
CHORUS
         G         F
 Singin' why me oh my

            C               F
 Is there a better man than I

            C                  G
 I hope you find your way back home

            C            F
 Before you lie high and dry

            C                  G
 I hope you find your way back home

            C      G
 Before you die
VERSE 3
     C               C
 One day when I grew older

       C                 C
 And I found I could not hold her

     F                    F
 She took on a fine young skipper

          F               C
 Who soon run her up on a boulder
CHORUS
         G         F
 Singin' why me oh my

            C               F
 Is there a better man than I

            C                  G
 I hope you find your way back home

            C            F
 Before you lie high and dry

            C                  G
 I hope you find your way back home

            C      G
 Before you die
VERSE 4
         C                C
 Now the pleasures of the harbor

       C              C
 Don't include a lady barber

       F                    F
 If it wasn't for Long John Silver

           F                     C
 All of us pirates would've been martyrs
CHORUS / ENDING
         G         F
 Singin' why me oh my

            C               F
 Is there a better man than I

            C                  G
 I hope you find your way back home

            C            F
 Before you lie high and dry

            C                  G
 I hope you find your way back home

            C            F
 Before you lie high and dry

            C                  G
 I hope you find your way back home

            C
 Before you die