Stan Rogers – The Jeannie C (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
     Bm     A     G            D
Come all ye lads, draw near to me,

     Bm   A      G   D
that I be not forsaken

     Bm      A                G
This day was lost the Jeannie C.

       A               G
and my living has been taken

     A            D
I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 2]
       Bm       A          G         D
We set out this day in the bright sunrise,

    Bm      A   G   D
the same as any other

   Bm      A              G
My son and I and old John Price

       A                 G
in the boat named for my mother

     A            D
I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 3]
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Now it's well you know what the fishing has been,

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it's been scarce and hard and cruel

         Bm      A                   G
But this day, by God, we sure caught cod,

       A                        G
and we sang and we laughed like fools

     A            D
I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 4]
     Bm         A       G      D
I'll never know what it was we struck,

    Bm        A        G     D
but strike we did like thunder

     Bm           A                   G
John Price give a cry and pitched overside

         A                 G
Now it's forever he's gone under

     A            D
I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 5]
      Bm         A           G           D
Now a leak we've sprung, let there be no delay

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if the Jeannie C. we're saving

     Bm       A                  G
John Price is drown'd and slip'd away

        A                           G
So I'll patch the hole while you're bailing

     A            D
I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 6]
       Bm     A          G      D
But no leak I found from bow to hold

   Bm      A        G   D
No rock it was that got her

    Bm     A                        G
But what I found made me heart stop cold,

    A                 G
for every seam poured water

     A            D
I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 7]
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My God, I cried as she went down

     Bm       A       G   D
That boat was like no other

   Bm     A                    G
My father built her when I was nine,

    A                G
and named her for my mother

     A            D
I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 8]
    Bm           A     G       D
And sure I could have another made

       Bm        A       G   D
in the boat shop down in Dover

      Bm        A                  G
But I would not love the keel they laid

         A                  G
like the one the waves roll over

     A            D
I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 9]
        Bm     A     G            D
So come all ye lads, draw near to me,

     Bm   A      G   D
that I be not forsaken

     Bm      A                G
This day was lost the Jeannie C.

       A                   G
and my whole life has been taken

     A            D
I'll go to sea no more