Chords for Greenland Whale Fisheries - The Pogues, 1985

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_ _ _ May _ _ [D] _
_ _ 1846, on March the 18th day, _ we hoisted our colours [C] to the top of the mast, and with
[D] a grey-red sail, [G] away we went boys, [D] and with a grey-red sail, [G] away we went.
_ _ _ The thrust resisted, it spun us against hand, there's a whale, there's a whale, and [C] a whale,
she cried, and she [D] pulls out her [G] embrace, and my wife, and she pulls out her embrace and
the captain stood on the quarterdeck, and the [D] eyes glistened in time,
_ _ [G] over hull, over hull, the [C] gypsy ship flowed, [G] and a butcher-boaster saved my wife,
and a butcher-boaster saved me,
But who's on the line right now?
We're single, blurrish, [D] always twirl
[G] You can't size them all
And we lost five men
_ And we did [D] not catch that [G] wild brain bite
And we did not catch that _ wild_ _BITE!
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You can't lose the whole world
Those five jolly men
With grey hair dark and [D] sore _
But the [G] love is union [C] of death, fire and wild rush
_ [G] Now a grave intense as for a bite
Now a grave intense as _ _ for_
_Hungry man
It's a burning land
And a land that burns not green
Where there's ice and snow [C] and the world's in love
And [G] the daylight's still the same, right in bite
And the daylight's still the _ same_ _BITE! _ _
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_ I love you!
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