The Flying Dutchman Chords by The Jolly Rogers

[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The sky was grey and cloudy and the wind was from the west.
When we spied a battered frigate with her tattered sailful dress.
[G] [Gm] They signaled they had letters home, they asked if we could take.
[Dm] They dropped them in a barrel, they left bobbing in their wake.
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We reaped the sails and slowed the ship to fish the barrel out.
The old ship sailed to the distance, then we saw her come about.
[Gm] The captain watched through his spyglass when we heard him catch his breath.
[Dm] And we saw the storm uprew and had become a wall of [A] death.
Turn this ship around [G] me boys, turn around and run.
[A] That storm, it wants a battle [G] and it's sure that we're [D] outgunned.
What of [F] the ship that's out [G] there, do we leave her [A] to the gale?
[D] She's called the Flying Dutchman and [Am] it's race that fills her [Dm] sails. _ _ _ _ _ _
The thunder growled like demons and the lightning stabbed the waves.
And the Dutchman, she leapt towards us riding fury from the grave.
[G] [Gm] Our captain, he stayed at the wheel, the crew, they manned the [Dm] lines.
And still that ship and storm were quickly closing in behind.
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Our ship would crest a giant wave and crash to the trough below.
And the crew held on to what they could, they were damned if they let go.
[Gm] The rain and sea and storm winds crashed against our ship with wrath.
[Dm] And from the deck of that cursed ship, we could hear them laugh.
[A] Turn this ship around me [G] boys, turn around and run.
[A] That storm, it wants a battle [G] and it's sure that we're [D] outgunned.
That ghostly [F] ship is hunting [G] us, it's bringing [A] on the gale.
[D] She's called the Flying Dutchman and it's race that fills her sails.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
That was when we sighted land and it came a race with time.
We believed in Santa Marta, the Dutchman closing in behind.
[G] [Gm] Risking all that Captain Howe's the only chance we've got.
[Dm] Salvation if we make it and our souls if we get caught.
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The storm was all around us and the Dutchman caught our wind.
The beast nearly capsized us and we washed our strong masked men.
We [Gm] were almost to the harbor, we could see the natural break.
[Dm] And each man wheeled her forward for they knew what was at stake.
[A] Turn this ship around me [G] boys, turn around and run.
[A] That storm, it wants a battle [G] and it's sure that we're [D] outgunned.
That ghostly ship is [G] hunting us, it's bringing [A] on the gale.
[G] She's called the Flying Dutchman [D] and it's race that fills her sails.
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Once we charged it to that harbor the Flying Dutchman heaved away.
And we heard their bitter screams for the devil lost his prey.
[G] Once we made it [Gm] safely to the leeward of the bay.
[Dm] We cracked that barrel open to see what those letters say.
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There must have been a hundred and that's when we realized.
These moldy parchments were addressed to those who'd long since died.
[G] If you see a battered [Gm] frigate near the gray and stormy sky.
[Dm] Give way and watch behind you or you'll hear your captain [A] cry.
Turn this ship around me [G] boys, turn around and run.
[A] That storm, it wants a battle [G] and it's sure that we're outgunned.
[B] That ghostly ship is [G] hunting us, it's bringing [A] on the [G] gale.
[D] She's called the Flying Dutchman and it's [A] race that fills her sails.