Pillaging Plundering Pirate Chords by Golden Bough

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You can take my flintlock and my powder and my knives
[D] You can lock me up, you [B] can keep me from your wives
[Em] You can take my codless, you can take me from the sea
[D] But you can never take the [B] pillaging, plundering pirate out of me _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] Every time a pirate ship [Em] was spotted on the sea
[D] Every sailor swore that it [Em] was me _
[A] How could I have been in all [Em] the places that they say
[G] What do we care, we caught a pirate [B] today _
You can take my flintlock and my powder and my knives
[D] You can lock me up, you [B] can keep me from your wives
[Em] You can take my codless, you can take me from the sea
[D] But you can never take the [B] pillaging, plundering pirate [Em] out of me _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
[B] Pirates [E] drink their wine and [Em] rum
But getting drunk is not much [Bm] fun
When you're [A] hanging from the dead man's [Bm] gallows _ _ _
[E] Spend your [B] life in plundering
[Em] But it really leads to just one [F#m] thing
Hanging from the dead man's [Bm] gallows _ _
You must try and [Em] understand
A pirate's [Em] life is not so [D] grand
When you're hanging from the [F#m] dead man's gallows
Hanging from the dead man's gallows
You [A] can brag of all your [Bm] pirate _ deeds
[A] Looting and plundering [Bm] and taking all you need
[A] But there are those whose lives you [Bm] took away _
[G] If they were here, what [F#] would they say? _ _
[Bm] Hanging from the dead man's gallows _ _
[Em] You _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[Em] can take my flintlock and my powder and my [D] knives
You can lock me up, [B] you can keep me from your wives
[Em] You can take my codless, you can take me from the sea
[D] But you can never take the [B] pillaging, plundering pirate [Em] out of me _ _ _ _ _
[Am] Many were the nights I [Em] spent in ports so well hidden _
[D] Loving women, drinking [Em] with men _
[Am] I squandered all my plunder [Em] and I drank my share of rum
[G] But I never thought that this [B] day would _ come
[Em] You can take my flintlock and my powder and my knives
[D] You can lock me up, [B] you can keep me from your wives
[Em] You can take my codless, you can take me from the sea
[D] But you can never take the [B] pillaging, plundering pirate [Em] out of me
Scalawag, buccaneer, not much difference as I [Bm] hear
When you're hanging from the dead man's gallows
All _ _
[Em] your chests of stolen gold cannot save your cursed [Bm] soul
When you're hanging from the dead man's gallows _ _
[Em] The devil spawned a pirate [Bm] crew, that's who'll be waiting for you
When you're hanging from the dead man's gallows
When _ _
[A] you were young you were a [Bm] ruthless rake _
[A] India to [Bm] Madagascar, terror in your [A] wake
Now there's only one place [Bm] left for you
[G] The die is cast, no matter [F#] what you do _
[B] You can [Em] take my flintlock and my powder and my knives
[D] You can lock me up, [B] you can keep me from your wives
[Em] You can take my codless, you can take me from the sea
[D] But you can never take [B] the pillaging, plundering pirate [E] out of [Em] me _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] Hanging from the dead man's _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [F#m] _
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[Bm] gallows
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