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Jeannie C

Stan Rogers

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The Jeannie C. 3/4 Stan Rogers Standard Tuning / No Capo Travis Pickin 1+2+3+ PP AM AM Submitted by Ken Lee Fogarty's Cove 1978 Comments or suggestions to kandvlee@shaw.ca / D / A / G / D / Come / all ye / lads, draw / near to / me, / / D / A / G / D / That / I be / not for - / saken, / / / D / A / G / D This / day was / lost the / Jeannie / C., and / G / A / D / My / living / has been / taken, / / G / A / D / / / / / / / I'll / go to / sea no / more. / / / / / / / We set / out this / day in the / bright sun - / rise, / The / same / as / any / other, / My / son and / I and / old John / Price, / In the / boat named / for my / Mother. / I'll / go to / sea no / more. / / / / / / / Now, it's / well you / know what the / fishing has / been, / It's been / scarce and / hard and / cru - / el, / But this / day, by / God, we / sure caught / cod, / and We / sang and / we laughed like / foo - / ools. / I'll / go to / sea no / more. / / / / / / / / I'll / never know / what it was we / struck, / But / strike we / did like / thunder. / / John / Price gave a / cry and / pitched over - / side, / Now it's / forever / he's gone / under. / I'll / go to / sea no / more. / Now a / leak we've / sprung, let there be / no de - / lay, / If the / Jeannie / C. we're / sav - / ing, / John / Price is / drowned and / slipped a - / way. / So I'll / patch the / hole while you're / bailin', / I'll / go to / sea no / more. / / / / / / / But no / leak I / found from / bow to / hold, / No / rock it / was that / got he - / er, / But / what I / found made me / heart stop / cold, / For / every / seam poured / water, / I'll / go to / sea no / more. / / / / / / / My / God, I / cried as / she went / down, / That / boat was / like no / oth - / er, / My / Father / built / her when / I was / nine, / and Named her / for my / Mother, / I'll / go to / sea no / more. / / / / / / / and Sure, I / could / have a - / nother / made, / In the / boatshop / down in / Do - / ver, / But I / would not / love the / keel they / laid, / Like the / one the / waves roll / over. / I'll / go to / sea no / more. / So come / all ye / lads, draw / near to / me, / That / I be / not for - / sa - / ken, / This / day was / lost the / Jeannie / C., / and My / whole life / has been / taken. / I'll / go to / sea no / more. / /
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