Shanty For The Arethusa Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Em We set to sail on a A♯ packet full of Fspice, rum and Emtea-leaves.

We've emptied out all the bars and the bowery hotels

Em F♯ G Tell your daughters do notG/B G walk the streets alone toEmnight

Em F♯ G Tell your daughters do notE F♯ G walk the streets alone toB7night

 (B7La B7da A Gdum Emdum)

Tell the tale of the jewess and the mandarin chinese boy

He led her down from her gilded canopy of cloth.

And through her blindfold she could make out the figures there before her

And how the air was thick with incense, cardamom and myrrh

B7 B7 A G

C/G So goodnight, boys, goodEmnight Em F♯ G

C/G Say goodnight, boys, goodB7night

B7La B7da A Gdum Emdum

EmLa CdaG dDumB7 dum...

We set to sail on a clipper that's bound for South Australia

The weather's warm there, the natives are dark and nubile.

But if you listen, quiet, you can hear the footsteps on the cross-trees

The ghosts of sailors passed, their spectral bodies clinging to the shrouds.

So goodnight, boys, goodnight

Say goodnight, boys, goodnight

B7La B7da AduGm duEmm

EmLa CdaG dDumB7 dum... Em