Wave over Wave
Jim
Payne
Strum: B D U D U
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Chord
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3
4 G: 3x0003 |
132 D: xx0232 |
12 Em: 022000 |
32 1 C: x32010 |
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2 4 G/B: x20003 |
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G D
Em G
Me
name's Able Rogers, a shareman am I
C G C
D
On a
three-masted schooner from Twillingate Isle
C D G G/B
I've been the world over, north, south, east, and west
C G
C D
But the middle of nowhere's where I like it best
Chorus:
C G Em G
Where it's
wave over wave, sea over bow
C G
C D
I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow
C D G G/B
There's no other life for a sailor
like me
C G C D
But to sail the salt sea, boys, sail the sea
G G/B
D G (2)
There's no other life but to sail the salt sea
G D
Em G
The
work it is hard and the hours are long
C G
C D
My spirit is willing, my back it is strong
C D G
G/B
And when our work's over then whiskey we'll pour
C G C D
We'll dance with the girls upon some foreign shore
Chorus
G D
Em G
I'd
leave my wife lonely ten months of the year
C G
C D
She made me a home and raised my children dear
C D G
G/B
But she'd never come out to bid farewell to me
C G
C D
Or ken why a sailor must sail the salt sea
Chorus
G D
Em G
I've
sailed the wide oceans four decades or more
C G
C D
And many times wondered what I do it for
C D G
G/B
I don't know the answer, it's pleasure and pain
C G
C D
With life to live over, I'd do it again
Final
Chorus:
C G Em G
Where it's wave over wave, sea over bow
C G C D
I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow
C D
G G/B
There's no other life for a sailor
like me
C G
C D
But to sail the salt sea, boys, sail the sea
G G/B D C G
There's no other life but to sail the salt sea
C G C D
Sail the salt sea, boys, sail the sea
G G/B D G (hold)
There's no other life but to sail the salt sea