Blow Ye Winds In The Morning Chords by Dan Zanes, Dan Zanes

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_ _ It is advertised in Boston, New York, and Buffalo.
_ [C] 500 [G] brave [A] Americans are whaling [D] for to go.
[G] Singing blow your winds in the morning, blow your winds high ho!
Clear away all running [D] gear and blow [G] boys, blow!
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[D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ They'll take you to New Bedford town, that famous whaling port.
[C] And hand you [G] to some land sharks [A] there to board and [D] fit you out.
[G] Singing blow your winds in the morning, blow your winds high [C] ho!
Clear [G] away all running gear [D] and [G] blow boys, blow!
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They'll tell you of the clipper ships going in and out.
[C] Say you'll take [G] 500 [A] sperm before you're six [D] months out.
[G] Singing blow your winds in the morning, blow your winds high ho!
[C] Clear [G] away all running [D] gear and blow [G] boys, blow!
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It's now we're out to sea my boys, the wind comes on to blow.
[C] One half the [G] watch is sick on [A] deck, the other [D] half he blows.
[G] Singing blow your winds in the morning, blow your winds high ho!
[C] Clear [G] away all running gear [D] and blow [G]
boys, blow!
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_ _ _ But as for the provisions, we don't get half enough.
[C] Little [G] piece of stinking [A] beef and a blame [D] swamp bag of duff.
[G] Singing blow your winds in the morning, blow your winds high ho!
[C] Clear [G] away all running [D] gear and [G] blow boys, [C] blow!
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_ [G] _ _ Next comes the running rigging, which you're all supposed to know.
[C] Lay [G] aloft you son of a [A] gun, or overboard [D] you can go.
Singing [G] blow your winds in the morning, blow your winds high [C] ho!
Clear [G] away all running [D] gear and blow [G] boys, blow!
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_ [G] _ _ Skippers on the quarter deck, squinting at the sails.
[C] Up [G] aloft the lookout [A] sights a school of [D] spouting whales.
[G] Singing blow your winds in the morning, blow your winds high ho!
[C] Clear [G] away all running gear and blow boys, blow!
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[G] _ _ Now clear away the boats my boys, and after him we'll travel.
[C] But if you get [G] too near his [A] fluke, he'll kick you to [D] the devil.
[G] Singing blow your winds in the morning, blow your winds high ho!
[C] Clear [G] away all running [D] gear and blow [G] boys, blow!
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[G] _ _ _ Now we've got him turned up, tow him alongside.
We hold him with our blubber hooks [A] and rob him of [D] his hide.
Singing [G] blow your winds in the morning, blow your winds high ho!
[C] Clear away [G] all running gear and blow boys, blow!
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[G] _ _ Just comes a stowing down my boys, we'll take both night and day.
[C] And you'll all have [G] fifty cents a piece [A] on a hundred [D] and ninetieth days.
[G] Blowing winds in the morning, blowing winds high ho!
[C] Clear [G] away all running [D] gear and blow [G] boys, blow!
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[G] _ _ When we get home our ship makes fast.
When we're through our sailing, [C] a winding [G] glass around we'll [A] pass.
And damn the [D] blubber [G] whaling.
Blowing winds in the morning, blowing winds high ho!
[C] Clear away [G] all running gear [D] and blow [G] boys, blow!
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