Misc Traditional – Mingulay Boat Song (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro]
D                          D5
We are workers at the hawser

G      D
We are workers since break of day

D
We are workers at the hawser

D
As the sun sets on Mingulay
[Chorus]
D
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

D
Bring her head ‘round into the weather

D
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

D
Sailing homeward to Mingulay
[Verse 1]
D
What care we though white the Minch is

D
What care we for wind and weather?

D
Let her go boys, every inch is

D
Sailing homeward to Mingulay
[Chorus]
      Bm  Bm7           A
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

          G                    Em
Bring her head ‘round into the weather

       Bm               A
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

        G           A     D
Sailing homeward to Mingulay
[Verse 2]
          Bm             D    A
Wives are waiting by the pier head

           G                Em7
Or looking seaward from the heather

          Bm                      D
Pull her ‘round boys, then you’ll anchor

         G           A    D
‘Ere the sun sets on Mingulay
[Chorus]
G      D
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

          A                    G
Bring her head ‘round into the weather

     D
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

        A           D
Sailing homeward to Mingulay
[Verse 3]
D
Ships return now, heavy laden

G       D
Mothers holdin’ bairns a-cryin’

D
They’ll return though, when the sun sets

        G       D
They’ll return to Mingulay
[Chorus]
       Bm7              A
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

          G                    Em
Bring her head ‘round into the weather

      Bm      Bm7       A
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

        G           A   D
Sailing homeward to Mingulay
[Chorus]
D
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

A                              G
Bring her head ‘round into the weather

       D
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

        A           Bm
Sailing homeward to Mingulay
[Interlude] A D G A Gm G D G D Dm Em G D Em G D Em [Chorus]
                        D
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

          Em                   G
Bring her head ‘round into the weather

                        D
Heel y’ho boys, let her go, boys

        Em          A    D
Sailing homeward to Mingulay