The Corries – Barretts Privateers (Guitar Tab)

Capo 4
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This is Roy's picking part. For the more straight forward strumming (Ronnie's) version see https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/the-corries/barretts-privateers-chords-3646301 I've tried to match up the lyrics to the 1 and 3 beats which meant stretching out either the lyrics or the tab spacing but that isn't an indication of note timing. All notes have equal value. It should sound something like this: https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/shot/RePeteD/533326243
[Intro]
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    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

[Verse 1]
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                the year was Seventeen  Seventy Eight

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(I wish I  was  in  Edinburgh now!)                           When the

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    letter of   marque was  sent frae the king  To the

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    scummiest    vessel I'd  ever          seen      God

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    damn  them     all!     I    was

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    told we'd sail the seas for American gold.  We'd

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    fire no guns-    shed  no     tears                        I'm a

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   broken  man on a   Halifax pier    The

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   last of Barrett's  Priva---teers

[Verse 2]
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               twas then Sid Barrett    cried the town

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(I wish I  was  in  Edinburgh now!)                             For

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    twenty     men   all   fishermaen    who   Would

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    make for    him the      Antelope's    crew      God

[Chorus]
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    damn  them     all!     I    was

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    told we'd sail the seas for American gold.  We'd

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    fire no guns-    shed  no     tears                        I'm a

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   broken  man on a   Halifax pier    The

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   last of Barrett's  Priva---teers

[Verse 3]
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                the Antleope sloop was a sickening sight

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(I wish I  was  in  Edinburgh now!)                           With a

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    list to  port and her sails in rags    And the 

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    cook in the scuppers wi' the staggers and jags     God

[Chorus]
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    damn  them     all!     I    was

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    told we'd sail the seas for American gold.  We'd

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    fire no guns-    shed  no     tears                        I'm a

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   broken  man on a   Halifax pier    The

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   last of Barrett's  Priva---teers

[Verse 4]
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             On the King's birthday we     sailed away

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(I wish I  was  in  Edinburgh now!)                           When a

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    great big   Yankee      hove in      sight  Wie our

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    caacked four pounders we made to  fight     God

[Chorus]
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    damn  them     all!     I    was

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    told we'd sail the seas for American gold.  We'd

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    fire no guns-    shed  no     tears                        I'm a

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   broken  man on a   Halifax pier    The

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   last of Barrett's  Priva---teers

[Verse 5]
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                the Yankee lay   low    down with gold

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(I wish I  was  in  Edinburgh now!)                           She was

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    low and fat and     loose in the stays  But to

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    catch her took the Antelope     two whole     days      God

[Chorus]
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    damn  them     all!     I    was

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    told we'd sail the seas for American gold.  We'd

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    fire no guns-    shed  no     tears                        I'm a

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   broken  man on a   Halifax pier    The

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   last of Barrett's  Priva---teers

[Verse 6]
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            Then at length we stood two  cables away

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(I wish I  was  in  Edinburgh now!)                           Our

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    cracked four pounders made an awful   din   But with

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    one fat   ball the Yank stove us in      God

[Chorus]
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    damn  them     all!     I    was

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    told we'd sail the seas for American gold.  We'd

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    fire no guns-    shed  no     tears                        I'm a

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   broken  man on a   Halifax pier    The

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   last of Barrett's  Priva---teers

[Verse 7]
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                The Antelope shook and  pitched on her side

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(I wish I  was  in  Edinburgh now!)                           

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    Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs  Andthe

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    Maintruck   took away    both  ma   legs     God

[Chorus]
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    damn  them     all!     I    was

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    told we'd sail the seas for American gold.  We'd

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    fire no guns-    shed  no     tears                        I'm a

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   broken  man on a   Halifax pier    The

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   last of Barrett's  Priva---teers

[Verse 8]
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                 So here  I  lay in my 25th     year

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(I wish I  was  in  Edinburgh now!)                           When the

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    6 years  since we  sailed  away    And I

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    just made   Halifax      yester----day      God

[Chorus]
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    damn  them     all!     I    was

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    told we'd sail the seas for American gold.  We'd

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    fire no guns-    shed  no     tears                        I'm a

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   broken  man on a   Halifax pier    The

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   last of Barrett's  Priva---teers