Great Big Sea – Excursion Around The Bay (Guitar)

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            G
Well it was on this Monday morning and the day be calm and fine

       D                                G       D      G
To the Harbour Grace excursion with the boys to have a time

                                     C               G
And just before the sailor took the gangway from the pier

  C                            C           D    G
I saw some fellow haul me wife aboard as a volunteer

   G
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry

   D            G         D     G
Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die!

                C                 G
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say,

    C             G             D                 G
"I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay"

       G
We had fourteen hundred souls aboard, oh what a splendid sight

       D                      G         D      G
Left stong and regimental to make our spirits bright

                                         C            G
And meself being in the double, when a funny things they'd say

    C                                          C       D     G
They choke themselves from laughing when they'd see us in the bay

   G
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry

   D            G         D     G
Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die!

                C                 G
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say,

    C             G             D                 G
"I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay"

    G
Me wife she got no better, she turned a sickly green

   D                          G        D      G
I fed her cake and candy, fat pork and kerosene

                                       C             G
Castor Oil and sugar of candy, I rubbed pure oil on her face

                                       C       D      G
And I said she'll be a dandy when we reaches Harbour Grace!

   G
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry

   D            G         D     G
Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die!

                C                 G
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say,

    C             G             D                 G
"I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay"

    G
My wife she got no better, my wife me darling dear

   D                                  G      D      G
The screeches from her trollear could hear in Carbonear

                                             C             G
I tried every place in Harbour Grace, tried every store and shop,

   C                               C        D      G
To get her something for a cure or take her to the hop

   G
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry

   D            G         D     G
Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die!

                C                 G
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say,

    C             G             D                 G
"I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay"

    G
She died below the brandy's as we were coming back

   D                                  G      D    G
We buried her in the ocean, wrapped up in a Union Jack

                                  C             G
So now I am a single man, in search of a pretty face

    C                                      C        D       G
And the woman that says she'll have me, I'm off for Harbour Grace!

   G
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry

   D            G         D     G
Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die!

                C                 G
Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say,

    C             G             D                 G
"I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay"