Chords for The Longest Johns, The Last Bristolian Pirate
Tempo:
74.5 bpm
Chords used:
Bb
Ab
C
F
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Oh, I used to be a farmer, and I made a living fine.
I had a little stretch of land along the Western line.
The times were hard, and though I tried, the money wasn't there.
And bankers came and took my land and told me fair is fair.
I looked for every kind of job, the answer always no.
Hi, you know, they'd always laugh, we'd just let twenty go.
The government, they promised me a meagre little sum.
And I've got too much pride to [Bb] end up just another [Ab] bum.
[Abm] Bum.
And I said, who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone?
I'm going to be a pirate [C] on the River [Bb] [N] Severn.
Arrgh! Arrgh!
Arrgh!
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
Stealing, eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
You'd think the other farmers would know that I'm enlarged.
But just the other day I saw an unsuspecting barge.
I snuck up right behind them, and [E] they were none the wiser.
I rammed their boat and sank it, and I stole the fertilizer.
The bridge outside of [F] Redwick's fattens a mighty burr.
Farmers cross it so [Bb] much fear the stomachs are a quiver.
[E] Plus they know the tractor track is hiding in the bay.
I'll jump the bridge and knock them [N] cold and sail off with the hay.
And it's a [Ab] heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
Stealing, eating, [N] bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
Well, Officer Joshie chased me.
He was always at my throat.
But he followed on the shoreline, because he didn't own a boat.
But got back for a plumbing, and the copper lost his job.
And now he sails with us, and we call him Salty Josh.
I swing this load of skull and bones for pleasant company.
Under a pay of my income taxes, screw the V.A.P.
Sailing out past Lombery, the terror of the seas.
If you want to get to Tesco, boys, you've got to get by me.
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[F] Stealing, eating, bargaining, [Eb] and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, [C] hi, hey.
[Ab] Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly [Bb] Roger on the [N] Severn's mighty doors?
Well, pirate life's appealing, but you don't just find it here.
I hear that up in Yorkshire, they've got band of buccaneers.
They roam around the Yorkshire Dales and Smiths to Babelay.
And you're bound to lose your flak cap if you have to pass their way.
Winter is a-coming, and a cheer is in the breeze.
My pirate days are over if the river starts to freeze.
Well, I'll be back in springtime, and now I've got to fly.
I hear there's lots of plundering down [C] in the Isle of [Ab] Wight.
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[F] Stealing, [Bb] eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And [N] it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[Ebm] Stealing, eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the [Eb] Jolly Roger on the Severn's [N] mighty doors?
When you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors.
I had a little stretch of land along the Western line.
The times were hard, and though I tried, the money wasn't there.
And bankers came and took my land and told me fair is fair.
I looked for every kind of job, the answer always no.
Hi, you know, they'd always laugh, we'd just let twenty go.
The government, they promised me a meagre little sum.
And I've got too much pride to [Bb] end up just another [Ab] bum.
[Abm] Bum.
And I said, who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone?
I'm going to be a pirate [C] on the River [Bb] [N] Severn.
Arrgh! Arrgh!
Arrgh!
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
Stealing, eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
You'd think the other farmers would know that I'm enlarged.
But just the other day I saw an unsuspecting barge.
I snuck up right behind them, and [E] they were none the wiser.
I rammed their boat and sank it, and I stole the fertilizer.
The bridge outside of [F] Redwick's fattens a mighty burr.
Farmers cross it so [Bb] much fear the stomachs are a quiver.
[E] Plus they know the tractor track is hiding in the bay.
I'll jump the bridge and knock them [N] cold and sail off with the hay.
And it's a [Ab] heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
Stealing, eating, [N] bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
Well, Officer Joshie chased me.
He was always at my throat.
But he followed on the shoreline, because he didn't own a boat.
But got back for a plumbing, and the copper lost his job.
And now he sails with us, and we call him Salty Josh.
I swing this load of skull and bones for pleasant company.
Under a pay of my income taxes, screw the V.A.P.
Sailing out past Lombery, the terror of the seas.
If you want to get to Tesco, boys, you've got to get by me.
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[F] Stealing, eating, bargaining, [Eb] and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, [C] hi, hey.
[Ab] Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly [Bb] Roger on the [N] Severn's mighty doors?
Well, pirate life's appealing, but you don't just find it here.
I hear that up in Yorkshire, they've got band of buccaneers.
They roam around the Yorkshire Dales and Smiths to Babelay.
And you're bound to lose your flak cap if you have to pass their way.
Winter is a-coming, and a cheer is in the breeze.
My pirate days are over if the river starts to freeze.
Well, I'll be back in springtime, and now I've got to fly.
I hear there's lots of plundering down [C] in the Isle of [Ab] Wight.
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[F] Stealing, [Bb] eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And [N] it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[Ebm] Stealing, eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the [Eb] Jolly Roger on the Severn's [N] mighty doors?
When you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors.
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_ Oh, I used to be a farmer, and I made a living fine.
I had a little stretch of land along the Western line.
The times were hard, and though I tried, the money wasn't there.
And bankers came and took my land and told me fair is fair.
I looked for every kind of job, the answer always no.
Hi, you know, they'd always laugh, we'd just let twenty go.
The government, they promised me a meagre little sum.
And I've got too much pride to [Bb] end up just another [Ab] bum.
[Abm] Bum.
And I said, who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone?
I'm going to be a pirate [C] on the River _ _ [Bb] [N] Severn.
Arrgh! Arrgh!
Arrgh!
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
Stealing, eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
You'd think the other farmers would know that I'm enlarged.
But just the other day I saw an unsuspecting barge.
I snuck up right behind them, and [E] they were none the wiser.
I rammed their boat and sank it, and I stole the fertilizer.
The bridge outside of [F] Redwick's fattens a mighty burr.
Farmers cross it so [Bb] much fear the stomachs are a quiver.
[E] Plus they know the tractor track is hiding in the bay.
I'll jump the bridge and knock them [N] cold and sail off with the hay.
And it's a [Ab] heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
Stealing, eating, [N] bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
Well, Officer Joshie chased me.
He was always at my throat.
But he followed on the shoreline, because he didn't own a boat.
But got back for a plumbing, and the copper lost his job.
And now he sails with us, and we call him Salty Josh.
I swing this load of skull and bones for pleasant company.
Under a pay of my income taxes, screw the V.A.P.
Sailing out past Lombery, the terror of the seas.
If you want to get to Tesco, boys, you've got to get by me.
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[F] Stealing, eating, bargaining, [Eb] and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, [C] hi, hey.
[Ab] Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly [Bb] Roger on the [N] Severn's mighty doors?
Well, pirate life's appealing, but you don't just find it here.
I hear that up in Yorkshire, they've got band of buccaneers.
They roam around the Yorkshire Dales and Smiths to Babelay.
And you're bound to lose your flak cap if you have to pass their way.
Winter is a-coming, and a cheer is in the breeze.
My pirate days are over if the river starts to freeze.
Well, I'll be back in springtime, and now I've got to fly.
I hear there's lots of plundering down [C] in the Isle of [Ab] Wight.
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[F] Stealing, [Bb] eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And [N] it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[Ebm] Stealing, eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the [Eb] Jolly Roger on the Severn's [N] mighty doors?
When you see the Jolly Roger _ on the Severn's mighty doors. _ _ _ _ _
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I had a little stretch of land along the Western line.
The times were hard, and though I tried, the money wasn't there.
And bankers came and took my land and told me fair is fair.
I looked for every kind of job, the answer always no.
Hi, you know, they'd always laugh, we'd just let twenty go.
The government, they promised me a meagre little sum.
And I've got too much pride to [Bb] end up just another [Ab] bum.
[Abm] Bum.
And I said, who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone?
I'm going to be a pirate [C] on the River _ _ [Bb] [N] Severn.
Arrgh! Arrgh!
Arrgh!
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
Stealing, eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
You'd think the other farmers would know that I'm enlarged.
But just the other day I saw an unsuspecting barge.
I snuck up right behind them, and [E] they were none the wiser.
I rammed their boat and sank it, and I stole the fertilizer.
The bridge outside of [F] Redwick's fattens a mighty burr.
Farmers cross it so [Bb] much fear the stomachs are a quiver.
[E] Plus they know the tractor track is hiding in the bay.
I'll jump the bridge and knock them [N] cold and sail off with the hay.
And it's a [Ab] heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
Stealing, eating, [N] bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
Well, Officer Joshie chased me.
He was always at my throat.
But he followed on the shoreline, because he didn't own a boat.
But got back for a plumbing, and the copper lost his job.
And now he sails with us, and we call him Salty Josh.
I swing this load of skull and bones for pleasant company.
Under a pay of my income taxes, screw the V.A.P.
Sailing out past Lombery, the terror of the seas.
If you want to get to Tesco, boys, you've got to get by me.
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[F] Stealing, eating, bargaining, [Eb] and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, [C] hi, hey.
[Ab] Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly [Bb] Roger on the [N] Severn's mighty doors?
Well, pirate life's appealing, but you don't just find it here.
I hear that up in Yorkshire, they've got band of buccaneers.
They roam around the Yorkshire Dales and Smiths to Babelay.
And you're bound to lose your flak cap if you have to pass their way.
Winter is a-coming, and a cheer is in the breeze.
My pirate days are over if the river starts to freeze.
Well, I'll be back in springtime, and now I've got to fly.
I hear there's lots of plundering down [C] in the Isle of [Ab] Wight.
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[F] Stealing, [Bb] eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And [N] it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the Jolly Roger on the Severn's mighty doors?
And it's a heave ho, high ho, coming down the plains.
[Ebm] Stealing, eating, bargaining, and all the other grains.
And it's a ho, hey, hi, hey.
Farmers by and for, and can you see the [Eb] Jolly Roger on the Severn's [N] mighty doors?
When you see the Jolly Roger _ on the Severn's mighty doors. _ _ _ _ _
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