Sea Shanty Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

E5x G♯ x E A0 Am6x F♯7x A75 Bx B/Cx C♯mx A5 C♯x F♯x Badd9x B72

x x 2 7 2 8 4 4 9 5 9 2 7 4

9 13 2 5 3 6 4 4 9 6 10 3 8 2

9 12 2 5 2 5 4 4 11 7 11 4 9 4

7 11 0 0 5 7 2 3 11 7 11 4 9 2

0 0 x x 2 5 x x 9 5 9 2 7 x

 //Intro = ( E5 G♯/E A Am6 ) x2

E5 Repair the G♯hulEl, A replace the Am6sails.

E5 The monkey G♯wreEstles with the Aghost Am6

 And a F♯7thousand pleasures form a A7thin veneer

 Over Black of hope.B/C B

 The C♯mcaptain was rightly F♯murdered by the Bcrew B/C B

C♯m But now they F♯don't know what toBadd9 do - A

E5Drifting on the C♯murky F♯Sargasso B7 of the E5everydG♯ay.E A Am6

//Then basically the same again

Work and slave and skimp and save

And you can buy yourself a bigger cave

And a thousand little cruelties we agree to pretend to ignore.

The ghost has got the monkey by the tail

And all they both can do is wail.

And you and I go drifting by the abandoned vessels of the everyday.