Misc Musicals – Epic The Musical - Full Speed Ahead (Guitar)

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Cm Bb Ab Cm Bb Ab Fm9 Bb/G Ab Fm9 Bb/G Ab [ODYSSEUS, (SOLDIERS)]

Cm              Bb
 Six hundred men, six hundred men under my

   Ab
command, with only one goal in mind

N.C. (Make it back alive to our homeland)

Cm              Bb                          Ab
 Six hundred men, six hundred miles of open sea

But the problem's not the distance N.C. (It's what lies in between)

             Fm9
And Ithaca's waiting (Ithaca's waiting)

              Bb/G
My kingdom is waiting (The kingdom is waiting)

           Ab          Bb
Penelope's waiting for me

               Cm Bb Ab  Cm Bb Ab
So full speed ahead

            Fm9 Bb/G Ab
Full speed ahead

[EURYLOCHUS, (SOLDIERS)]

Fm9 Bb/G   
    Captain 

Ab
 (Eurylochus)

Cm
 Six hundred men (Six hundred men)

Bb                                  Ab
 Six hundred men with big mouths to feed

                                 Fm9
And we've run out of supplies to eat

           Bb/G      Ab            Bb
(Curse the war, our food store's depleted)

Cm
 Six hundred men (Six hundred men)

Bb                                   Ab
 Six hundred reasons to take what we can

So captain, what's the plan?

Fm9       Bb/G       Ab
(Captain, what's the plan?)

[ODYSSEUS, (SOLDIERS)]

Bb              Fm9
Watch where the birds fly

Bb/G             Ab
(Watch where the birds fly)

                     Bb
They will lead us to land

           Bbsus      Bb
(They will lead us to land)

            Abadd9                         Bb
There we'll hunt for food, my second in command

Now full speed ahead, full speed ahead [EURYLOCHUS, SOLDIERS]

      Cm        Bb        Ab
We're up, we're off, and away we go

      Cm        Bb        Ab
We're up, we're off, and away we go

      Fm9       Bb/G      Ab
We're up, we're off, and away we go

[POLITES]

   Fm9   
Captain

[ODYSSEUS]

  Bb/G      
 Polites!

[POLITES]

 Ab
 Look!

Abadd9                           Bbadd9
 There in the distance, I see an island

                           Cm7
I see a light that faintly glows

                                Bb/D
Maybe they're people lighting a fire

Maybe they'll share some food, who knows? [ODYSSEUS]

Abadd9
Something feels off here

      Gsus7
I see fire but there's no smoke

[EURYLOCHUS]

          Cm7
I say we strike first, we don't have time to waste

         G7
So let's raid the place and—

[ODYSSEUS] No.

Fm9                                Bb/G
 Polites gear up, you and I'll go ahead

[POLITES] (You and I'll go ahead) [ODYSSEUS]

Abadd9                                     Bbadd9
We should try to find a way no one ends up dead

[EURYLOCHUS] (We don't know what's ahead) [ODYSSEUS]

            Fm9                        Bb/G
Give me til sunrise, and if we don't return. 

         Abadd9                                Bbadd9
Then six hundred men can make this whole place burn

[ODYSSSEUS, (SOLDIERS)]

                Fm9    Bb/G
Now full speed ahe-e-e-ad

            Abadd9 Bbadd9
Full speed ahe-e-e-ad (Full speed ahead)

      Fm9
We're up, we're off, and away we go

       Bb/G
(We're up, we're off, and away we go)

            Abadd9
Full speed ahead (We're up, we're off, and away we go)

       Bbadd9
(We're up, we're off, and a—)

           C5
Full speed ahead