Chords for Steeleye Span - The Black Freighter (from 'The Threepenny Opera')

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_ _ _ You tell me I'm some gawk while I'm scrubbing the floors, and I'm scrubbing the floors while you're gawking
And maybe once you tip me and it [E] make it feel so [C] well in this rocky [D] waterfront in this [Em] rocky hotel
[F] But you never know to whom you're [Fm] talking
You never guess to whom you're [Dm] talking
[Eb] Suddenly one [Abm] night there's a scream in the [Eb] night and a yell of the hell [Ab] in that din
[E] And you see me kind of grinning [G] while I'm [Eb] _
scrubbing
[E] And you say
What she [Eb] got to grin
_ _ [Abm] And the ship _
_ _ [Ebm] _ With [Db] the scarred of my neck
_ [B] sails _
[Bb] [Ab] into the [Eb] sea _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Then you gentlemen can say hey girls scrub the floor make the bed get up the stairs and you keep here
And you're part of the divide you look out at the ship [Cm] but I'm counting the pairs as I'm making [E] a mess
[Fm] Tonight none of you will sleep here tonight.
[F] None of you will sleep here
[Eb] _ _ [Abm] _ [Eb] You _
[Abm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Eb] say _
_ _ [E] _ _ what you got [Eb] to say _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] Open [Bb] the door
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[Am] _ _ [E] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _ _
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[E] _ [Gm] Then _ [E] _ _ [G] _ [B] _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
you gentlemen can wipe all the grins off your face every building in the town is a flat one
The whole thinking place will [Em] be down to [Cm] the ground only this cheap hotel [Eb] will be standing [Fm] safe and sound
And you'll say why didn't they spare that one?
You'll say why didn't they spare that [Eb] one?
Then all night through [Abm] with an oil to do [Eb] you'll walk through the bed [Ab] and lift up your [E] head
And you'll see me stepping [G] _ [Eb] _ in
[E] Looking nice
With a little bit of [Eb] my hair _ _
[Abm] And the ship
_ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ Runs [Dbm] a flag
Up a mountain
_ _ [Abm] And the [Bb] beer [Ab] Rings
[Eb] _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Am] Then [E] just [A] before noon there'll be hundreds of men coming up on that drowsy [E] franchise
[A] And they're moving in the shadows where no one can [Cm] see
And they're chaining up the people and they're [E] bringing them to [Fm] me
Asking me kill them now or later
Asking me kill them now or later
[Eb] Noon on the [Abm] clock and so still on the [Eb] dock
You could hear a fog or [Abm] mild the world
In [E] the quiet distance I'll say [Eb] kill them now
_ [E] And they'll pile up the bodies [Eb] and I'll say _ _
And _ _ [Ab] _ _ the ship
_ _ [Ebm] And _ freighter _
[Dbm] Sails away out to sea _ _
[B] And [Bb] on [Ab] it [Eb] Is me
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