Chords for Jimmy Buffett - A Pirate Looks At Forty (Audio)

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_ _ Mother, mother ocean, _ _ _ I have heard you call
_ _ [C] Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three [G] feet tall
You've seen it [Am] all, _ _ [A] _
_ you've seen [G] it all _
_ _ _ _ Watch the man who rode you _ switch from sails to steam
In [C] your belly you hold the treasures you have ever [G] seen
Most of them [Am] dreams, _
_ [Bm] _ _ most [G] of them dreams
_ _ _ _ _ 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-boarded victim of [G] fate, arriving [Am] too late, _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] arriving [G] too late
_ _ _ _ _ But 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
_ _ _ _ And I have been drunk now for over two weeks
I passed out and I ratted and I swung a few leaks
[C] But I got to stop, _ got to go fishing down the rock bottom [G] again
With just [Am] a few friends, _ [G] _ _ [A] with just [G] a few friends _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ I go for younger women, _ _ live with several of the wives
Though [C] I ran them away, they'd come back one day
_ Still could manage to [G] smile, just takes [Am] a while, _ _ [Bm] _ [Am] just takes [G] a while
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Mother, mother ocean, _ after all the years I've found
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Occupational hazard, my _ occupation's just not [G] around
I feel like [Am] I've drowned, _ _ _ gone ahead [G] of time
I _ _ feel like [Am] I've drowned, _ _ [G] _ [A] gone ahead [G] of time
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