Stan Rogers – Sailors Rest (Guitar)

     G        D                G          C                           
It's acrimony down in the card-room, with winning hands thrown on the baize

    D                                            C        D7
For-gotten cards wait on the end of debate on the good old days

G                             G7        C                   A7
Captains and mates gettin' tes-ty, with memories not of the best

    G                   C                    G
And tempers are flyin', down at the Sailor's Rest

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Blue eyes in wrinkled Mo-rocco, still search the horizon for squalls

    D                                                    C        D7
And Zeroes in the sky, and the watchkeeper's eye, and the pawnshop balls

    G                       G7             C                    A7
The spice in the wind off of Java, and the bars in Papeete were best

        G                   C                    G
But the deck is too steady, down at the Sailor's Rest

     D-D7-D7sus4     G7                          C
And, oh, how they talked of the day they'd ar-rived

     Em                       C                           Am          D
When after the years, all the storms and the tears, still very much a-live

     D7-D7sus4     G7                            C
And, oh, how their lives were spilled out on the floor

         Em                        Am
From the battered old seabags, the journals and logs 

         Em                      A7
And the keepsakes locked in the chests

          G                    C                    G
That were stowed in the attic, down at the Sailor's Rest

   G           D        G                 C                       
No rail on the messroom table, and you're dead if you spit on the floor

D                                          C            D7
No grog allowed, no singin' too loud, and no locks on the doors

            G                    G7                 C                    A7
But there's always a fire in the card room, and the tucker is always the best

            G                C                    G
And they'll end it together, down at the Sailor's Rest

     D-D7-D7sus4  G7                          C
And, oh, how they talked of the day they'd ar-rived

     Em                       C                           Am          D
When after the years, all the storms and the tears, still very much a-live

     D7-D7sus4      G7                            C
And, oh, how their lives were spilled out on the floor

         Em                        Am
From the battered old seabags, the journals and logs

         Em                      A7
And the keepsakes locked in the chests

          G                    C                    G
That were sold at the auction, down at the Sailor's Rest

    G           D        G                 C                       
So it's acrimony down in the card-room, with winning hands thrown on the baize

D                                          C            D7
For-gotten cards wait on the end of debate on the good old days

G                           G7          C                   A7
Captains and mates gettin' tes-ty, with memories not of the best

            G                 C                    G
But they'll end it together', down at the Sailor's Rest

     G        D                G
It's acrimony down in the card-room