Misc Musicals – The Little Mermaid - Fathoms Below (Guitar)

      C          F          C          G
I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue

          C         Am              C      Am
And it's hey to the starboard, heave ho

       C         F             C           G
Brave sailor, beware, cause a big 'uns a-brewin'in

    C       Gm        C      Am
mysterious fathoms below

C    Am
Heave-ho

     C          F           C           G
I'll sing you a song of the king of the sea

         C          Am               C       Am
An' it's hey to the starboard, heave-ho

    C        F          C         G
The ruler of all of the oceans is he

      C        Gm        C
In mysterious fathoms below

G          Am  Em
Fathoms below,

   Am   G
Below

     C              C          Dm     G
From whence wayward westerlies blow

      C          Am
Where Triton is king

        Dm7        G
And his merpeople sing

      Em  Am Gm        C     F
In mysterious fathoms below

C           G                C                        F                  C                G
     "Isn't this perfection, Grimsby? Out on the open sea, surrounded by nothing but water!"

F      G                 C     Am        C     Am
     "Oh, yes, it's simply... delightful"

     C            F 
The salt on your skin

        C             G
And the wind in your hair

        C             F            C       G
And the waves as they ebb and they flow

       C         C    F
We're miles from the shore

          C    N.C.
And guess what, I don't care!

N.C.                           C
As for me, I'm about to heave ho!

Am        C      Am
Back to work!

      C              F       C         G
I'll sing you a song of the king of the sea

         C                Am          C    G
An' it's hey to the starboard, heave-ho

     C            F      C 
The ruler of all of the oceans is he

       C       Gm       Am    G
In mysterious fathoms below

              Am               G                   Am             G          Am       G
"King of the sea? Why, that's nautical nonsense - nothing but a superstition!

     Am                     Em
The king of the ocean gets angry

     Am                  Em
An' when he gets angry, beware

      F                        C
I'm tellin' ya, lad, when King Triton is mad

N.C.      Dm       Am        Gm      C
How the waves'll buck, rock to and fro

      Dm       Em       F      G
Hold on, good luck, as down you go

                 A
       "What is that? Do you hear something?"

G                                       A
"Milord, please. Enough sea-faring!"

A-aa-aah,                              a-aa-aaa-aah

 Db                  Ab                     Bbm                     Fsus                Fm      Gb
"You've got to get back to court, to honor your father's dying wish and take up his crown!"

                Absus        Ab
"That's not the life for me, Grimsby"

Bb                           C
          "There it is again!"

                          Bb           Bb              C
"We ought to head back to shore, your majesty"

Db             Bbm7
"Indeed, we should!"

E                   Dbm7               C                           Am
"Not while I'm captain. Now follow that voice! To the ends of the earth if we have to!"

C           Am
"Aye-aye, Captain!"

         C            F            C         G
There's mermaids out there in the bottomless blue

         C          Am              C
An' it's hey to the starboard, heave-ho

      C            F              C          G
Watch out for 'em, lad, or you'll go to your ruin

       F      G      Am7   G      C     Am     C      Am   C
In mysterious fath - oms   be  -  low