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Note: use capo on 4th freet.
Intro LAm DO LAm DO LAm DO SOL LAm
Verse:
LAm DO
If the waves roll rough as in days before
SOL LAm
Still we put our boats to sea
DO
The take has been tough, we're counting on more
SOL LAm DO LAm SOL LAm
To make the season pay
Verse:
It was back in '83 my brothers and me
laid our poor father in his grave
Even though he's dead and gone, his voice lives on
In the hiss and pull of the waves
Chorus
DO SOL
We'll carry on, carry on
FA DO SOL
sing these words through all the damage done
FA DO FA
The old salt would say, I my father's son
LAm DO
Come hell or high water
SOL LAm
We'll carry on,
Verse:
In smokey gray rooms, beneath bare lightbulbs,
The accusations fly
What the hell do they want, they've taken enough
From this way of life once mine
Chorus
LAm DO/SIC LAm DO/SI DO LAm DO/SI DO SOL LAm
Verse:
It's a merciless scheme, not a fisherman's dream
The way the tide has turned
For not long before, by these restless shores
A man could his living earn
Chorus
Ending:
FA DO
Hell or high water
FA DO
Hell or high water
FA DO
Hell or high water
SOL LAm DO/SI DO LAm7 SOL LAm
we'll carry
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