Chords for Ode To Big Blue

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ The oceans of the [C] world were the home of [E] Big E.
_ _ _ [B] _ _
He [A] was the greatest monster that [C] the world ever knew.
And the [Dm] place that he loved best was [C] the waters to the [Dm] west.
_ [E] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ Around the blue [C] Pacific he did [D]
roam.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ Big [D] Blue moved and loomed [C] for a mighty blue [E] ocean.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ At the bowels of the whales was an awesome sight to see.
And he [Dm] fought one by one and he [C] drove them all [E] away.
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ And in the mainty [C] of the day he was [E] the king.
_ [D] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [D] Big Blue had fifty wives and he [C] sired forty _ sons. _ _
_ _ Who all stood up for the victim to [C] the cruel hardened guns.
[D] He was too much wise to get [C] caught by the [Dm] gunner's [D] eyes. _
[E] _ _ _ [Dm] And so he lived [C] at sea [E] a hundred years.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[D] His mouth was as large as [C] a tunnel so [D] deep. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
His eyes were as thick as the leather of his [C] eyes.
And as small as his back as a scar [C] from the times he got [Dm] away.
_ [D] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ His [C] son of whalers did [D] Big Blue.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Dm] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ Lost away [C] to his natural [E] decay.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ Beside the Arctic Circle as [C] he traveled up that way.
And there [B] was a man [G] who [C] was born with a [Dm] gunner's hand.
[Bm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [D] Whoever took a [C] pan to Big [A] Blue.
Now _ _ _ _ _ [D] the great whale is run and [G] the sperm is [D] almost done.
_ _ [B] _ _ _
[D] _ The Finbacks and the Greenland [C] Rights have all passed and gone.
[Dm] They've been taken by the men for [G] the money they could spend.
_ _ [A] _ _
[G] _ _ [E] And [Dm] the killing [C] never ends.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And the oceans [D] of the world [C] were the home of [Dm] Big Blue.
_ _ [D] _
_ _ He was the greatest monster that [C] the world ever knew.
The place that he loved best was the waters to the [Am] west.
_ [E] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ Around the Blue [C] Pacific he [D] did roam.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Dm] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ Around the [C] Blue Pacific _ he _ [Eb] did _ [D] roam.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _