A Pirate Looks At Forty Chords by Jimmy Buffett

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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_ _ _ Mother, mother ocean, _ _ _ I have heard you call.
_ _ _ [C] Wanted to sail upon your water since I was three [G] feet tall.
You've [Am] seen it all, _ [G] _ .
_ _ [Am] you've seen [G] it all _ .
_ _ _ _ _ Watched the man who rode you _ switch from sails to steam.
_ [C] In your belly you hold the treasures you have ever [G] seen.
Most [Am] of them dream, _ .
_ [Bm] _ _ [Am] most [G] of them dream.
_ Yes, _ _ _ I am a pirate, _ _ two hundred years too late.
_ [C] The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder.
I'm an over 40 victim [G] of fate, arriving [Am] too late, _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] arriving [G] too late.
_ _ _ _ _ I've done a bit of smuggling, _ and I've run my share of grass.
_ [C] I made enough money to buy _ Miami, but I pissed it away so [G] fast.
Never meant [Am] to last, _ [Bm] _ [Am] never meant [G] to last _ _ _ _ _ .
I have been drunk now for over two weeks.
I passed out and I ratted and I sprung a few leaks.
[C] But I've got to stop, _ got to go [D] fishing [C].
down the rock bottom [G] again.
Just a [Am] few friends, _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] just a [G] few friends _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ .
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ I go for younger women, _ _ live myself a little while.
Though [C] I ran away, think I'll come back one day _ .
Still could manage to [G] smile, just takes [Am] a while, _ _ [Bm] _ [Am] just takes [G] a while _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
Mother, mother ocean, _ after all the years I've found.
_ _ [C] _ .
_ _ Occupational hazard beast, _ _ occupation [G] just not around.
I feel like [Am] I've drowned, _ _ [G] _ [Am] gone ahead [G] of time.
_ I _ feel like [Am] I've drowned, _ _ [G] _ [Am] gone ahead [G] of time.
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