Misc Television – Due South - Robert Mackenzie (Guitar)

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Paul Gross - Robert MacKenzie (Paul Gross & Jay Semko) [Intro] | Am | G D | x2 [Verse]
Am
32 men on a Great Lakes boat

C
Quit the pier at Thunder Bay

G
28,000 tons of coal

     F             G
On a cold November day

Am
800 feet and 10 more long

C
80 feet across

    G
The steel mills of Detroit

         F                  G
Our destination through the frost

Am
At 2 AM on the 2nd

           C
Waves were runnin' up to 40 feet

G
Winds were blowing 60 miles

    F                G
Our engines crankin' heat

Am
At 3:13 we took a wave

    C
Our wheelhouse left behind

    G
The radar slipped beneath the waves

    F               G
And we were runnin' blind

C                       G
Hear me call across the waves

                        Am
If I don't come home tonight

                         F       G
I will make it home some day
[Chorus]
 Am              
(Steel boats and iron men)

G              D
32 down on the Robert Mackenzie

 Am              
(Steel boats and iron men)

G              D
32 down on the Robert Mackenzie

 Am              
(Steel boats and iron men)

E
32 down on the Robert Mackenzie
[Verse]
  Am
A captain name of Phillips

        C
Seekin' shelter from the storm

G        
Turned us south of Bête Grise Bay

   F               G
By way of Keewenaw point

        Am
But the wind was blowing at such a rate

   C
We ended up driftin' north

  G
A wave broke over a knife of rock

F
Six Fathom Shoal

Am
Mackenzie she was cut in half

    C
The stern she ram the bow

    G
The men were calling metaljunk

F                    Em
Flames burned out of hell

Am
Stern kept running on lights of blades

    C
Not one man would be found

G
Captain's last transmission read

F
32 men down, 32 men down

C                       G
Hear me call across the waves

                        Am
If I don't come home tonight

                    F        G
I will make it home someday
[Chorus]
 Am
(Steel boats and iron men)

G              D
32 down on the Robert Mackenzie

 Am
(Steel boats and iron men)

G              D
32 down on the Robert Mackenzie

 Am
(Steel boats and iron men)

G              D
32 down on the Robert Mackenzie

F                   G
Down Down Down Down Down Down Down Down
[Outro]
C                        G
And they call across the waves

                         Am
If I don't come home tonight

                        F     G
I will make it home someday

C                        G
Yes, I call across the waves

                         Am
If I don't come home tonight

                         F     G
I will make it home some day