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 war, since I was three [Am] feet [G] tall
You've [Am] seen it all, _ [G] _
_ [Am] you've seen [G] it all _ _ _ _ _
_ Watch the men who rode you, _ _ switch from sails to steam
[C] In your belly you hold the treasures you have ever [G]
seen
Most of [Am] them 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 an over 40 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 _
[C] I 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 _ _ _
_ _ I have been drunk now for over two weeks
I passed out and I ratted and I strung a few
[C] But I got to stop wishing, got to go [D] fishing [C] down the rock bottom [G] again
Just [Am] a few friends, _ _ [G] _ [Am] just [G] a few friends _ _ _
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_ I go through younger women, _ _ live with several of the wives
Though [C] I ran away, they come back one day
_ Still can manage to [G] smile, just takes [Am] a while, _ _ [Bm] _ [Am] just takes [G] a while _ _ _ _
_ _ Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I've found _ _
[C] _ _ Occupational hazard beast, _ _ occupation's just [G] not around
I feel like [Am] I've drowned, _ [G] _ gone [Am] ahead [G] of time
I _ feel like [Am] I've drowned, _ _
[G] _ [Am] gone ahead [G] of time
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