Chords for Christmas at Sea
Tempo:
126.95 bpm
Chords used:
Ebm
Ab
Eb
Bb
Gb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
The sheets were frozen hard and they cut the naked hand.
The decks were like a slide where us even scarce could stand.
The wind was a northwester blowing squally off the sea.
And the glistens spouting breakers were the only things I'll need.
They heard the surf a-roaring [Abm] before the break of day.
[Eb] Because only with the peep of light we saw how well we lay.
We [E] tumbled every hand [Ab] on deck in spectre with a [Gb] shout.
And we gave her the main, for so long stood by to go about.
All day we [Ab] tacked and tacked between the south head [D] and the north.
All day we [Em] hauled the [Bb] frozen sheets and got no further [Gb] forth.
All day as [Ebm] cold as charity in bitter pain and dread.
For very [D] life and nature we [Eb] tacked from head to head.
We gave [N] the south a wide above for there the tideways roared.
But every time we maybe brought the north head closer aboard.
We saw [Ebm] the cliff and houses and the breakers running high.
And the coastguard in [D] his garden with [Ab] his glass against [B] his eye.
The frost was on the glitched roofs as white as ocean [N] foam.
The gilded fires were burning bright in every longshore home.
The [Gb] windows sparkled clear [Ab] and the [Eb] chimneys bollied out.
And I vow we smothed the [D] victuals as [Db] the vessel [Ebm] went about.
The [Gm] bells upon the church were rung [A] with a mighty jovial cheer.
For [Gb] it's just that I should tell you how of all days in the year.
This day of our adversity was blessed [Ebm] Christmas morn.
And the house above the coastguard was the house where I was [B] born.
[Eb] Oh, well I saw the pleasant room, the pleasant faces there.
My mother's silver spectacles, my [Ab] father's [Bb] silver hair.
[Ebm] And well I saw the firelights like a plight of homely elves.
Go dancing [D] round the china veins [Db] that stand upon [Ebm] the shell.
And well I knew the talk they had, the talk that was of me.
The shadow on the household and the sun that once [Bb] was [C] sweet.
And oh the wicked fool I [Eb] seemed in every kind of way.
[Bb] Be here and hold him close and roll.
Some [Eb] blessed Christmas day.
[N]
It lit the high sea light and the dark began to [A] fall.
All hands to loose, top garland sails, I heard the captain call.
By lord you'll never stand it, our first mate Jackson cried.
It's one way or the other, Mr.
Jackson he replied.
[Ebm] She staggered to her bearings but the sails swirled new and good.
And the ships [Gb] smelt to [Bb] windward just as though she understood.
As the [Ab] winter's day was ending in the [Gbm] eitry of the night.
[Ebm] We heard the weary head land and passed below the [Bb] light.
And they heaved a mighty prayer for every soul on board but [C] me.
As they saw her nose again [Bb] pointing handsome out to [Gb] sea.
But all [Ab] that I could think of in [Ebm] the darkness and the cold.
Was just that I was leaving home.
And my folks were [Ab] growing [Eb] old.
The decks were like a slide where us even scarce could stand.
The wind was a northwester blowing squally off the sea.
And the glistens spouting breakers were the only things I'll need.
They heard the surf a-roaring [Abm] before the break of day.
[Eb] Because only with the peep of light we saw how well we lay.
We [E] tumbled every hand [Ab] on deck in spectre with a [Gb] shout.
And we gave her the main, for so long stood by to go about.
All day we [Ab] tacked and tacked between the south head [D] and the north.
All day we [Em] hauled the [Bb] frozen sheets and got no further [Gb] forth.
All day as [Ebm] cold as charity in bitter pain and dread.
For very [D] life and nature we [Eb] tacked from head to head.
We gave [N] the south a wide above for there the tideways roared.
But every time we maybe brought the north head closer aboard.
We saw [Ebm] the cliff and houses and the breakers running high.
And the coastguard in [D] his garden with [Ab] his glass against [B] his eye.
The frost was on the glitched roofs as white as ocean [N] foam.
The gilded fires were burning bright in every longshore home.
The [Gb] windows sparkled clear [Ab] and the [Eb] chimneys bollied out.
And I vow we smothed the [D] victuals as [Db] the vessel [Ebm] went about.
The [Gm] bells upon the church were rung [A] with a mighty jovial cheer.
For [Gb] it's just that I should tell you how of all days in the year.
This day of our adversity was blessed [Ebm] Christmas morn.
And the house above the coastguard was the house where I was [B] born.
[Eb] Oh, well I saw the pleasant room, the pleasant faces there.
My mother's silver spectacles, my [Ab] father's [Bb] silver hair.
[Ebm] And well I saw the firelights like a plight of homely elves.
Go dancing [D] round the china veins [Db] that stand upon [Ebm] the shell.
And well I knew the talk they had, the talk that was of me.
The shadow on the household and the sun that once [Bb] was [C] sweet.
And oh the wicked fool I [Eb] seemed in every kind of way.
[Bb] Be here and hold him close and roll.
Some [Eb] blessed Christmas day.
[N]
It lit the high sea light and the dark began to [A] fall.
All hands to loose, top garland sails, I heard the captain call.
By lord you'll never stand it, our first mate Jackson cried.
It's one way or the other, Mr.
Jackson he replied.
[Ebm] She staggered to her bearings but the sails swirled new and good.
And the ships [Gb] smelt to [Bb] windward just as though she understood.
As the [Ab] winter's day was ending in the [Gbm] eitry of the night.
[Ebm] We heard the weary head land and passed below the [Bb] light.
And they heaved a mighty prayer for every soul on board but [C] me.
As they saw her nose again [Bb] pointing handsome out to [Gb] sea.
But all [Ab] that I could think of in [Ebm] the darkness and the cold.
Was just that I was leaving home.
And my folks were [Ab] growing [Eb] old.
Key:
Ebm
Ab
Eb
Bb
Gb
Ebm
Ab
Eb
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _
The sheets were frozen hard and they cut the naked hand.
The decks were like a slide where us even scarce could stand.
The wind was a northwester blowing squally off the sea.
And the glistens spouting breakers were the only things I'll need.
They heard the surf a-roaring [Abm] before the break of day.
[Eb] Because only with the peep of light we saw how well we lay.
We [E] tumbled every hand [Ab] on deck in spectre with a [Gb] shout.
And we gave her the main, for so long stood by to go about.
All day we [Ab] tacked and tacked between the south head [D] and the north.
All day we [Em] hauled the [Bb] frozen sheets and got no further [Gb] forth.
All day as [Ebm] cold as charity in bitter pain and dread.
For very [D] life and nature we [Eb] tacked from head to head.
We gave [N] the south a wide above for there the tideways roared.
But every time we maybe brought the north head closer aboard.
We saw [Ebm] the cliff and houses and the breakers running high.
And the coastguard in [D] his garden with [Ab] his glass against [B] his eye.
The frost was on the glitched roofs as white as ocean [N] foam.
The gilded fires were burning bright in every longshore home.
The [Gb] windows sparkled clear [Ab] and the [Eb] chimneys bollied out.
And I vow we smothed the [D] victuals as [Db] the vessel [Ebm] went about.
The [Gm] bells upon the church were rung [A] with a mighty jovial cheer.
For [Gb] it's just that I should tell you how of all days in the year.
This day of our adversity was blessed [Ebm] Christmas morn.
And the house above the coastguard was the house where I was [B] born.
[Eb] Oh, well I saw the pleasant room, the pleasant faces there.
My mother's silver spectacles, my [Ab] father's [Bb] silver hair.
[Ebm] And well I saw the firelights like a plight of homely elves.
Go dancing [D] round the china veins [Db] that stand upon [Ebm] the shell.
And well I knew the talk they had, the talk that was of me.
The shadow on the household and the sun that once [Bb] was [C] sweet.
And oh the wicked fool I [Eb] seemed in every kind of way.
[Bb] Be here and hold him close and roll.
Some [Eb] blessed Christmas day. _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It lit the high sea light and the dark began to [A] fall.
All hands to loose, top garland sails, I heard the captain call.
By lord you'll never stand it, our first mate Jackson cried.
It's one way or the other, Mr.
Jackson he replied.
[Ebm] She staggered to her bearings but the sails swirled new and good.
And the ships [Gb] smelt to [Bb] windward just as though she understood.
As the [Ab] winter's day was ending in the [Gbm] eitry of the night.
[Ebm] We heard the weary head land and passed below the [Bb] light.
And they heaved a mighty prayer for every soul on board but [C] me.
As they saw her nose again [Bb] pointing handsome out to [Gb] sea.
But all [Ab] that I could think of in [Ebm] the darkness and the cold.
Was just that I was leaving _ home.
And my folks were _ [Ab] growing _ _ [Eb] old. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
The sheets were frozen hard and they cut the naked hand.
The decks were like a slide where us even scarce could stand.
The wind was a northwester blowing squally off the sea.
And the glistens spouting breakers were the only things I'll need.
They heard the surf a-roaring [Abm] before the break of day.
[Eb] Because only with the peep of light we saw how well we lay.
We [E] tumbled every hand [Ab] on deck in spectre with a [Gb] shout.
And we gave her the main, for so long stood by to go about.
All day we [Ab] tacked and tacked between the south head [D] and the north.
All day we [Em] hauled the [Bb] frozen sheets and got no further [Gb] forth.
All day as [Ebm] cold as charity in bitter pain and dread.
For very [D] life and nature we [Eb] tacked from head to head.
We gave [N] the south a wide above for there the tideways roared.
But every time we maybe brought the north head closer aboard.
We saw [Ebm] the cliff and houses and the breakers running high.
And the coastguard in [D] his garden with [Ab] his glass against [B] his eye.
The frost was on the glitched roofs as white as ocean [N] foam.
The gilded fires were burning bright in every longshore home.
The [Gb] windows sparkled clear [Ab] and the [Eb] chimneys bollied out.
And I vow we smothed the [D] victuals as [Db] the vessel [Ebm] went about.
The [Gm] bells upon the church were rung [A] with a mighty jovial cheer.
For [Gb] it's just that I should tell you how of all days in the year.
This day of our adversity was blessed [Ebm] Christmas morn.
And the house above the coastguard was the house where I was [B] born.
[Eb] Oh, well I saw the pleasant room, the pleasant faces there.
My mother's silver spectacles, my [Ab] father's [Bb] silver hair.
[Ebm] And well I saw the firelights like a plight of homely elves.
Go dancing [D] round the china veins [Db] that stand upon [Ebm] the shell.
And well I knew the talk they had, the talk that was of me.
The shadow on the household and the sun that once [Bb] was [C] sweet.
And oh the wicked fool I [Eb] seemed in every kind of way.
[Bb] Be here and hold him close and roll.
Some [Eb] blessed Christmas day. _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It lit the high sea light and the dark began to [A] fall.
All hands to loose, top garland sails, I heard the captain call.
By lord you'll never stand it, our first mate Jackson cried.
It's one way or the other, Mr.
Jackson he replied.
[Ebm] She staggered to her bearings but the sails swirled new and good.
And the ships [Gb] smelt to [Bb] windward just as though she understood.
As the [Ab] winter's day was ending in the [Gbm] eitry of the night.
[Ebm] We heard the weary head land and passed below the [Bb] light.
And they heaved a mighty prayer for every soul on board but [C] me.
As they saw her nose again [Bb] pointing handsome out to [Gb] sea.
But all [Ab] that I could think of in [Ebm] the darkness and the cold.
Was just that I was leaving _ home.
And my folks were _ [Ab] growing _ _ [Eb] old. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _