Misc Traditional – St Gregorys Academy - Rolling Down To Old Maui (Guitar)

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                  Dm         A            Dm       Am
1st Verse: It's a damn tough life full of toil and strife

              Dm        Am   Dm
           We whalermen undergo.

                               A             Dm      Am
           And we don't give a damn when the gale is stopped

               Bb       Am        Dm
           How hard the winds did blow.

                     F                       C
           For we're homeward bound from the Arctic ground

                  Dm                  A
           With a good ship, taut and free.

                  Dm           A            Dm        A7
           And we don't give a damn when we drink our rum

                    Dm       Am  Dm
           With the girls of Old Maui.

                   F              C
   Chorus: Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys

                   Bb             A
           Rolling down to Old Maui.

                 Dm       A              Dm     Am
           We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground,

                   Dm      Am     Dm
           Rolling down to Old Maui.

                Dm      A           Dm        Am
2nd Verse: Once more we sail with a northerly gale

                       Dm      Am       Dm
           Through the ice and wind and rain.

                        A            Dm       Am
           Them coconut fronds, them tropical lands

              Bb         Am    Dm
           We soon shall see again.

               F                   C
           Six hellish months have passed away

                  Dm             A
           On the cold Kamchatka Sea.

               Dm        A              Dm     A7
           But now we're bound from the Arctic ground

                   Dm      Am    Dm
           Rolling down to Old Maui.

                   F              C
   Chorus: Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys

                   Bb             A
           Rolling down to Old Maui.

                 Dm       A              Dm     Am
           We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground,

                   Dm      Am     Dm
           Rolling down to Old Maui.

                Dm      A           Dm        Am
3rd Verse: Once more we sail with a northerly gale

           Dm          Am     Dm
           Towards our island home.

                        A           Dm      Am
           Our mainmast sprung, our whaling done,

                  Bb        Am     Dm
           And we ain't got far to roam.

               F                  C
           Our stuns'l bones is carried away,

                Dm               A
           What care we for that sound?

             Dm     A       Dm    A7
           A living gale is after us,

                 Dm        Am       Dm
           Thank God we're homeward bound.

                   F              C
   Chorus: Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys

                   Bb             A
           Rolling down to Old Maui.

                 Dm       A              Dm     Am
           We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground,

                   Dm      Am     Dm
           Rolling down to Old Maui.

               Dm       A                  Dm     Am
4th Verse: How soft the breeze through the island trees,

                   Dm     Am   Dm
           Now the ice is far astern.

                       A           Dm       Am
           Them native maids, them tropical glades

                 Bb      Am    Dm
           Are a-waiting our return.

                F                   C
           Even now their big brown eyes look out

                  Dm               A
           Hoping some fine day to see

               Dm    A              Dm       A7
           Our baggy sails runnin' 'fore the gales

                   Dm      Am    Dm
           Rolling down to old Maui.

                   F              C
   Chorus: Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys

                   Bb             A
           Rolling down to Old Maui.

                 Dm       A              Dm     Am
           We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground,

                   Dm      Am     Dm
           Rolling down to Old Maui.