Bluenose Chords by Stan Rogers

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[Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ [F] _ _ _
[G] Once [Am] again with [G] the tide she slips her [A] lines, [F] turns her head and comes awake.
[G] [Am] Where she lay [Em] so still there at privateers' work, [F] now she quickly gathers way.
[G] [Am] She will [Em] range far [E] south from the harbor mouth [Am] and rejoice with [D] every wave.
_ _ [C] [A] Who will know the blue [G] nose [A] in the sun?
[Am] _ Feel her bow rise [C] free of mother sea [F] in a sunburst cloud of spray.
[Em] [A] That stings the [G] cheek while the rigging will [F] speak of sea miles gone away.
[G] She [C] is always best [Ab] under full [E] press, [A] hard over [Em] as [D] she'll lay.
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Who will [G] booze [F] in the sun?
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[A] Who will know the blue [G] nose [A] in the sun? _
[D] That proud bass [G] queen of the grand bank's fleet [C] portrayed on [E] every dime.
[Am] New hard work [D] clear time, [Am] hard [A] work in every line.
[D] The rich [G] men's toys of the Gloucester boys [C] with their token [E] pittacon.
[Am] They snap their spars [D] and strain to pass [G] her by, [E] but she left them [Am] all behind.
Now her [Em] namesake daughter [F] remains to show what she has been.
[G] _ [Am] What [Em] every schoolboy remembers [F] and will not come again.
[G] [C] To think she's the [E] last of the grand bank's [Am] schooners that fed so [D] many men.
_ _ [Am] Who will know the blue nose [G] [F] in the sun?
_ [G] [A] Who will know the blue [G] nose [Am] in the sun?
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[D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _ So [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ [A] does she not take wing [C] like a living thing, [F] child of the moving tide?
[G] [A] See her [Am] pass with [C] grace on the water's phase [F] with queen and quiet pride.
[G] [C] Our own tall ship [E] of great renown [Am] still lifts unto the [D] sky. _ _ _
[Am] Who will know the blue [G] nose [F] in the sun?
_ [Em] _
[A] Who will know the blue nose [F] in the sun? _
[C] _ [Am] Who will know the blue [G] nose [F] in the sun?
Who will know the [Em] blue nose in [D] the sun?
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