Mark Knopfler – Privateering (Guitar)

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An easy take on "Privateering". Probably not 100% accurate but works fine. Maybe there's another bass note somewhere. [Verse 1]

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Yon's my privateer, see how trim she lies

To every man a lucky hand and to every man a prize

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I live to ride the ocean, the mighty world around

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To take a little plunder and to hear the cannon sound

    F               C
To lay with pretty women

                 G        Dsus2
to drink Madeira wine

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to hear the roller's thunder on a shore that isn't mine

[Chorus]

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Privateering, we will go

Privateering, Yoh! oh! ho! Privateering, we will go Yeah! oh! oh! ho! [Verse 2]

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The people on your man o'war are treated worse than scum

I'm no flogging Captain, my God I've sailed with some

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Come with me to Barbary, we'll ply there up and down

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Not quite exactly in the service of the Crown

    F               C
To lay with pretty women

                 G        Dsus2
to drink Madeira wine

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to hear the roller's thunder on a shore that isn't mine

[Chorus]

 Am
Privateering, we will go

Privateering, Yoh! oh! ho! Privateering, we will go Yeah! oh! oh! ho! [Verse 3]

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Look here there's my privateer, she's small but she can sting

Licensed to take prizes with a letter from the King

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I love the streets and taverns of a pretty foreign town

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tip my hat to the dark eyed ladies as we sally up and down

    F               C
To lay with pretty women

                 G        Dsus2
to drink Madeira wine

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to hear the roller's thunder on a shore that isn't mine

[Chorus]

 Am
Privateering, we will go

Privateering, Yoh! oh! ho! Privateering, we will go Yeah! oh! oh! ho! [Verse 4]

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Britannia needs her privateers each time she goes to war

Death to all her enemies though prizes matter more

                                C                G
Come with me to Barbary, we'll ply there up and down

 Am                               G       Am
Not quite exactly in the service of the Crown

    F               C
To lay with pretty women

                 G        Dsus2
to drink Madeira wine

 Am                                G               Am
to hear the roller's thunder on a shore that isn't mine

[Chorus]

 Am
Privateering, we will go

Privateering, Yoh! oh! ho! Privateering, we will go Yeah! oh! oh! ho!