Captain Ward Chords by Tempest

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_ _ _ _ _ All you jolly mariners that love to take a drum,
Let's go and seek for Captain Ward, who over the seas has come.
He is the greatest robber, as you shall [B] quickly hear.
[G] There's not been [E] such a robber [B] found this last six [E] hundred years. _
_ _ He got a letter [Bm] on the sixth [B] of January,
Said let's go Captain Ward, [A] come in with all [B] his company.
[E] It's like you do, let him [D] in, till the [B] stage is told.
[E] A ransom he will offer [Bm] you, for twenty [E] tons of gold.
Now, [Em] now, says [D] the king, that [Bm] can never be.
[Em] Captain Ward he is [B] a robber, [Em] a robber on [D] the sea.
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[E] He has provided [D] a ship of [B] noble fame.
[E] [Em] Oh, the Royal [A] Rainbow, if you would know her name.
[E] She was as well provided [D] for as any [B] ship could be.
[Em] Full five hundred [B] men on board, to bear her company.
_ [E] _ _ _ When the Royal Rainbow [Bm] came, what Captain Ward did buy.
[Em] Who is the master of the [E] ship, the Rainbow [B] crew decried.
[E] Same am I, says Captain [D] Ward, why shame on [B] dear old me.
If you were the king's first ship, you're welcome [E] onto me.
Oh, now, [Em] now, says the [D] king, that [Bm] can never be.
Captain Ward he is a robber, a robber on the [D] sea.
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[A] _ [E] For he never roughed an English ship, [D] his friends and [B] ships of Spain.
[Em] But why is it that our [A] Dutchmen met upon [B] the main?
[E] Or had I got a letter through, [D] this few weeks [Bm] past of three.
I would have spared [B] Lord Essex life, and [E] Spain's negligibly.
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_ But in the morning, they began to fight.
So did it continue, to nine o'clock at night.
Fight on, [Em] fight on, Mrs.
Captain Ward, so well it [E] pleases me.
[Em] If you fight him [E] tomorrow, the master I will be.
_ And the Royal Rainbow, she fired [B] all in vain.
[Em] Full four hundred of her [A] crew, upon the decks [B] lay slain.
[E] Go home, go home, Mrs.
Captain [D] Ward, tell your [B] king from me.
[Em] King Erul, King [D] Ardalan, _ [E] good Lord is king of sea.
Oh [F#m] no, [Em] no, says the [D] king, that can never [Bm] be.
Captain Ward he is a robber, a [E] robber on the sea.
Oh [F#] no, no, says the king, that can never [G] be.
Captain [E] Ward he is a robber, a robber on the sea.
Oh no, no, says the king, that can never be.
[Em] Captain Ward he is a robber, a robber on the sea. _ _ _ _ _
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