Chords for Wave Over Wave

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ [Bm] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ Me name's Abel [D] Rogers, [Em] a Sherman [G] am I [C] On a three-masted [G] schooner from _ [D] Twillingate Isle
[C] I've been the [G] world [D] over, [G] north, south, east [Bm] and west
[C] But the middle [G] of nowhere's [C] where [G] I like it [D] best
Where [C] it's wave [G] over wave, [Em]
sea over [G] bow
I'm [C] as happy [G] a man [C] as the [G] sea will [D] allow
[C] There's no other [G] life [D] for [G] a sailor [Bm] like me
[C] But to sail the [Em] salt [G] sea, boys, [C]
[G] sail the sea
There's no other [Bm] life but to [D] sail the [G] salt sea _ _
_ The work it is hard and [Em] the hours [G] are long
[C] My spirit [G] is willing, my back it [D] is strong
[C] And when our work's [G] over, then whiskey we'll pour
[C] We'll dance with [G] the girls up [C] on [G] some foreign [D] shore
Where [C] it's wave [G] over wave, _ [Em] sea [G] over bow
I'm [C] as happy [G] a man as [C] the [G] sea will [D]
allow
[C] There's no other [G]
[D] life for [G] a sailor [Bm] like me
[C] But to sail the [G] salt sea, boys, sail [D] the sea
[G] There's no other [Bm] life but to [D] sail the [G] salt sea
_ [Bm] _ _ _
[D] I'd _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ leave my [D] wife [Em] lonely ten months [G] of the year
She [C] made me [G] a home and raised my children [D]
dear
But [C] she'd never [D] come out [G] to bid farewell to me
[C] Or ken why [G] a sailor must sail the [D] salt sea
Where [C] it's wave over [G]
wave, _ [Em] sea over [G]
bow
I'm [C] as happy [G] a man as [C] the [G] sea will [D]
allow
[C] There's no other [D]
life for [G] a sailor [Bm] like me
[C] But to sail the [G] salt sea, boys, [C] [G] sail [D] the sea
[G] There's no [Bm] other life but [D] to sail the [G] salt sea
_ _ I've sailed the wide [D] [Em] ocean for decades [G] or more
[C] And many [G] times wondered what I'd do it [D] for
[C] I don't know [D] the answer, [G] it's pleasure [Bm] and pain
[G] [C] With life to [G] live over, I'd do it [D] again
Where [C] it's wave over [G] wave, _ [Em]
sea over [G] bow
I'm [C] as happy [G] a man as the sea will [D] allow
[C] There's no other [D] life [G] for a sailor [Bm] like me
But [C] to sail the [G] salt sea, boys, sail [D] the sea
[G] There's no [Bm] other life but [D] to sail the [G] salt sea _
[D] _ [Em] Well, _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G]
I can't [C] complain.
[G] I haven't [D] had it as hard as some, God [C] knows.
And for the bit of [G] time you've [D] been around in the [G] past sixteen years, [Bm] well, you've been a good [C] man.
I remember [G] the year we married.
[C] It was a [G] good year.
[D] You were working for my [C] father, and it [G] seems to me that I had you all to meself every minute of every day.
[C] And all [G] the sweet long [C] hours of [G] the night.
_ [D]
I think that was [C] the happiest year of my [G] life.
[D] _ [G] But by the spring of the following year, just after my [C] birthday it was, [G] well, you got to be itching [C] after [G] something.
And [D] in no time at all you'd [G] gone down and you'd [Bm] signed up on the Mary Eleanor.
It was [D] then I [G] knew I was married to a sailor.
_ I couldn't even bring myself to go down [D] and say goodbye to you.
[Em] _
_ [G] No, I'm not complaining.
[C]
We've always had a [G] roof over our heads, and [C] we've never [G] wanted for very much.
[D] I always [C] said now that I'd never [G] had it as [D] hard as May.
[G]
Her husband [Bm] Jack, well, he'd only be [C] home one or two days out of [G] every year.
That's when [C] he was working [G] on the coastal [D] boats.
My dear, [C] when he'd come [G] home on the Prospero, she'd have to go down there and get him
because he was too blind [C] drunk to make his way [G] home by himself.
_ [C]
[G] And I'll never [D] forget the night I was [C] over at Nan's, [G] the night [D] Poppy Rogers came [G] home.
_ [Bm] Poppy Rogers, [C]
gone eleven [G] years.
We [C] hadn't heard [G] a word from him.
[D] We didn't know what had [G] happened to him.
Should we give him [Bm] up for dead? _
Well, [D] that night [G] Nan just looked out of the window and she saw him coming up the [D] path.
And all [G] she said was, _ put the kettle on, [C] Frank's home.
[G] _
_ [Cm] But I do [G] wish you'd been here [D] with me when Gary died.
[C] _ My God, [G] that was a [D] hard winter.
[G] _ Flu, [Bm]
epidemic [C] proportions, they said on the radio.
[G] _
_ [C] I remember [G] the night Mom and [D] I laid him out.
_ [C] And your [G] mother came over too.
I think Gary was her favorite, really. _
Anyway, [C] that night [G] I sawed up with him.
[C] [G] I sawed up [D] in that big old chair your [C] brother made.
[G] And I must have dozed [D] off [G] because around [Bm] four or five o'clock in the [C] morning I woke up.
[G]
And just [C] for an [G] instant, [D] you were there.
_ [G] You were bending [Bm] over him, kissing his cheek.
[D] _ _ [G] _
You were back in port six months later and you gave me Kevin.
[D] And [Em] Kevin had the croup and he [G] coughed and he bawled [C] for a solid year [G] straight.
He had me raftered.
[C] He [G] had me cleared, [D] drove off me head.
[C]
Then the [G] following [D] year, well, you were only home [G] for a week.
[Bm] I got Rose out of [C] that visit.
_ _ [G] _ But you [C] always [G] send me lovely [D] presents.
_ _ [C]
Sometimes a [G] year goes by and I have no word, no letters or such,
but [C] always bits and pieces [G] from here, there and [Cm] everywhere.
[G] _ _ [D] A lovely [C] shawl arrived for me in the mail [G] today.
[D] _ [G] Three yards of [Bm] beautiful colored [C] silk.
_ [G] I wonder where it's from.
[C] _
[G] _ [D] Spain?
Morocco?
[G] _
Someplace I've never been [Bm] to? _
Oh, [D] it's [G] gorgeous.
And the smell of it, it puts me in mind [D] of [Em] warm winds and [G] people speaking in foreign [C] tongues.
_ _ [G]
But sure, [C] where am [G] I going to wear it?
[D]
I suppose now I'll [C] put it on when I go out in the [G] garden [D] digging up a few [G] turnips
or when I'm making a bit of [Bm] soap at a lye.
[C] _ _ _ [G]
I'll go light the [C] candle for [G] you now.
_ [D]
It'll always [C] be here in the window [G] to guide you home.
_ _ I'll always be here for you, God willing.
[C] _ You [G] know, when [C] all is said and [G] done,
for [D] the bit of time that you've been [G] around in our married life,
[D] _ [G] you're the only man I've [Bm] ever had.
_ _ [C] You're the only [G] man I ever [C] wanted.
[G] _ _ [D] _
Where [C] it's wave [G] over wave, [Em] sea [G] over bow,
I'm [C] as happy [G] a man as the sea will [D]
allow.
[C] There's no other [D]
life for [G] a sailor [Bm] like me,
[C] but to sail the [G] salt sea, boys, [C] [G] sail [D] the sea.
[G] There's no [Bm] other life but [D] to sail the salt [G] sea. _ _ _ _
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