A Pirate Looks At Forty Chords by Jimmy Buffett

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_ _ _ _ Mother, mother ocean, _ _ I have heard you call
_ _ [C] Wanted to sail upon your water since I was three feet [G] tall
You've [Am] seen it all, _ _ [G] _
_ [Am] you've [G] seen it all
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Watch the man who rode you _ switch from sails to steams
_ [C] In your belly you hold the treasures you have ever [G]
seen
Most of them [Am] dream, _
_ [Bm] _ _ [Am] most [G] of them dream
_ Yes, _ _ _ I am a pirate, _ two hundred years too late _ _
[C] The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder
I'm not over forty, victim of [G] fate, arriving [Am] too late, _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] arriving [G] too late _ _ _
_ _ I've done a bit of smuggling, _ and I've run my share of grass
I [C] made enough money to buy _ Miami, but I pissed it away [G] so fast
Never [Am] meant to last, _ [Bm] _ [Am] never meant [G] to _ last _ _
_ _ And I have been drunk now for over two weeks
I passed out and I ratted and I sprung a few
But [C] I got to stop, got to go fishing down to rock [G] bottom again
Just [Am] a few friends, _ [G] _ _ [Am] just [G] a few friends _ _ _
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_ I go for younger women, _ _ live with several of wives
Though [C] I ran away and they come back one day
_ Still could manage to [G] smile, just takes [Am] a while, _ _ [Bm] _ [Am] just [G] takes a while _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Mother, mother ocean, _ after all the years I've found _ _
[C] _ _ _ Occupational hazard, my _ occupation's [G] just not around
I feel like [Am] I've drowned, _ _ [G] _ [Am] gone ahead [G] of time
I _ _ feel like [Am] I've drowned, _ _
[G] _ [Am] gone ahead [G] of time
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