The Longest Johns – Nantucket (Guitar)

  F#
I come from an island and islander's ways

D#m                      B
Breakers and Quakers and few of us stray

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Hunting the oceans with men that won't tire

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Nantucket sleigh-rides and chimney's afire

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Some may be wary and won't understand

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Trading a spear for a flag in the hand

    C#                       B            F#
But jetsom the try-pots, I'm shipping out east

E                   B         C#
Off to go hunting a different beast

F#/A#               G#m  F#          D#m           B
Fire flies from the long nines, shot handlers run about

    F#/A#               Bsus2
The captain says, we'll hull her

   F#/G#        C#/G#    C#
As though there was some doubt

    F#/A#             G#m  F#     D#m               B
And as we blow on the matches and brace to take the shock

   F#/A#         Bsus2          F#/G#      C#   F#
My mind is in Nantucket hauling whale-meat into dock

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I'm not used to bracing in weather so calm

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Still making cheer when I hear the alarm

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As iron and fire knock nails from the stern

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The shoals are no longer my biggest concern

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Our skipper is canny, a droll kind of soul

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Heat of assault and he's still cracking jokes

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"Ah Mr Starbuck, your aim is quite rare"

     E                      B         C#
Well I aim's to sink her, beyond disrepair

F#/A#               G#m  F#          D#m           B
Fire flies from the long nines, shot handlers run about

    F#/A#               Bsus2
The captain says, we'll hull her

   F#/G#        C#/G#    C#
As though there was some doubt

    F#/A#             G#m  F#     D#m               B
And as we blow on the matches and brace to take the shock

   F#/A#         Bsus2          F#/G#      C#   F#
My mind is in Nantucket hauling whale-meat into dock

C#/G#   A#m/G#           B       F#
History favours the bold and the brave

C#          F#            B           F#
Conquer the mountains and weather the waves

C#/G#                 B
Now I'm away with all liberties sons...

F#/A#               G#m  F#          D#m           B
Fire flies from the long nines, shot handlers run about

    F#/A#               Bsus2
The captain says, we'll hull her

   F#/G#        C#/G#    C#
As though there was some doubt

    F#/A#             G#m  F#     D#m               B
And as we blow on the matches and brace to take the shock

   F#/A#         Bsus2          F#/G#      C#   F#
My mind is in Nantucket hauling whale-meat into dock

F#/A#               G#m  F#          D#m           B
Fire flies from the long nines, shot handlers run about

    F#/A#               Bsus2
The captain says, we'll hull her

   F#/G#        C#/G#    C#
As though there was some doubt

    F#/A#             G#m  F#     D#m               B
And as we blow on the matches and brace to take the shock

   F#/A#         Bsus2          F#/G#      C#   F#
My mind is in Nantucket hauling whale-meat into dock