Stan Rogers – Take It From Day To Day (Guitar)

G                   C        D        G
Well, it's not the hours of watch-on-watch,

G                 C           D       Em
And it's not the work that I mind so much,

        G                       C
Or the long cold miles from my lover's touch,

             G          Am   D
'Though for sure she's far away.

   G         C         D         G
No stranger, I, to the touch of steel,

        G      C        D       Em
Or the honest fear any man can feel,

       G               C
But I long for dust under my heels

       G              Am
And a pocket full of pay

C       G             D      G
So I'll take it from day to day.

G              C        D          G
The pack-ice 'round us cracks and groans;

G            C         D          Em
The old St. Roch, she creaks and moans.

     G          C
The icy fog is in my bones,

         G         Am   D
And the ache won't go away.

G          C        D        G
Outside I bet it's warm and fair.

G                 C       D     Em
I could have her fingers in my hair,

          G                   C
But it's long, cold miles to her out there

      G                  Am
So I guess I'll have to stay

C         G            D      G
And just take it from day to day!

          D                  G       C
We're as far North now as I want to come,

     C               G
But Larsen's got us under his thumb,

    D                    G            C
And I signed up for the whole damned run,

  Am                  D
I can't get off half way.

         G      C     D       G
But when I get back unto the shore,

G          C           D        Em
I'm going South where it stays warm,

     G                   C
And there'll be someone on my arm

    G                Am
To help me spend my pay,

C        G            D      G
So I'll take it from day to day.

         D                  G       C
We're as far North now as I want to come,

     C               G
But Larsen's got us under his thumb,

    D                    G            C
And I signed up for the whole damned run,

  Am                  D
I can't get off half way.

         G      C     D       G
But when I get back unto the shore,

G          C           D        Em
I'm going South where it stays warm,

     G                   C
And there'll be someone on my arm

    G                Am
To help me spend my pay,

C        G            D      G
So I'll take it from day to day.

    G        C          D        G
No stranger, I, to the touch of steel

         G      C       D        Em
And the honest fear any man can feel,

       G               C
But I long for dust under my heels

       G              Am
And a pocket full of pay,

C        G            D      G
So I'll take it from day to day.