Standard (EADGBE)

I'm undecided about you again

Mightn't be right that you're not here

It's double-sided 'cause I ruined it all

 -But also saved myself by never believing you, Dear

Everything good I deem too good to be true

Everything else is just a bore

Everything I have to look forward to

Has a pretty painful and very imposing before

Chorus

(twice)

O' sailor why'd you do it -What'd you do that for?

Saying there's nothing to it -And lettin' it go by the boards

I have too been playing with fifty-two cards

-Just 'cause I play so far from my vest

Whatever I've got, I've got no reason to guard

What could I do, but spend my best

Chorus

twice)]

And after waiting, fighting patiently on my knees

All the other stuff tired itself out first, not me

And in its wake, appeared the touch and call of a different breed

One who set to get me wise and got me there and then, got me

And what a thing to know what could be instead

Oh, what a blessed curse; to see

It took the agenda from its place in my bed

Made a merry paramour of me

Chorus once

O' sailor why'd you do it -What'd you do that for

Giving me eyes to view it -As it goes by the boards