Capital Ship, A

Misc Traditional

[Verse 1]
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A capital ship for an ocean trip
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Was the "Walloping Window Blind"
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No wind that blew dismayed her crew
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Or troubled the captain's mind
    C
The man at the wheel was made to feel
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Contempt for the wildest blow
        C
Tho' it often appeared when the weather had cleared
          G7          C
That he'd been in his bunk below
 
   { CHORUS }
      C
      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
        F          G7   C
      A-sailing we will go
                   G7   C  F         C
      I'll stay no more on England's shore
         F   C   G7 C  G7
      So let the music play
          C
      I'm off for the morning train
         F         G7     C
      To cross the raging main
                    G7   C      F      C
      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
          F        G7    C
      Ten thousand miles away
 
 
[Verse 2]
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The bos'un's mate was very sedate
    G7                C
Yet fond of amusement too
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He played hop-scotch with the starboard watch
  Am              D7          G
While the captain tickled the crew
    C
The gunner he was apparently mad
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For he sat on the afterrail
    C
And fired salutes with the captain's boots
       G7         C
In the teeth of a booming gale
 
   { CHORUS }
      C
      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
        F          G7   C
      A-sailing we will go
                   G7   C  F         C
      I'll stay no more on England's shore
         F   C   G7 C  G7
      So let the music play
          C
      I'm off for the morning train
         F         G7     C
      To cross the raging main
                    G7   C      F      C
      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
          F        G7    C
      Ten thousand miles away
 
 
[Verse 3]
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The captain sat on the commodore's hat
    G7               C
And dined in a royal way
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Off pickles & figs & little roast pigs
    Am      D7         G
And gunnery bread each day
    C
The cook was Dutch and behaved as such
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For the diet he served the crew
      C
Was a couple of tons of hot-cross buns
       G7                C
Served up with sugar and glue
 
   { CHORUS }
      C
      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
        F          G7   C
      A-sailing we will go
                   G7   C  F         C
      I'll stay no more on England's shore
         F   C   G7 C  G7
      So let the music play
          C
      I'm off for the morning train
         F         G7     C
      To cross the raging main
                    G7   C      F      C
      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
          F        G7    C
      Ten thousand miles away
 
 
[Verse 4]
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Then we all fell ill as mariners will
     G7                    C
On a diet that's rough and crude
       F            D7          G
And we shivered and shook as we dipped the cook
     Am         D7       G
In a tub of his gluesome food
    C
All nautical pride we cast aside
    F  C       G7  C   G7
And we ran the vessel ashore
       C
On the Gulliby Isles where the poopoo smiles
        G7             C
And the rubbily ubdugs roar
 
   { CHORUS }
      C
      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
        F          G7   C
      A-sailing we will go
                   G7   C  F         C
      I'll stay no more on England's shore
         F   C   G7 C  G7
      So let the music play
          C
      I'm off for the morning train
         F         G7     C
      To cross the raging main
                    G7   C      F      C
      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
          F        G7    C
      Ten thousand miles away
 
 
[Verse 5]
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Composed of sand was that favored land
    G7                    C
And trimmed with cinnamon straws
    F        D7           G
And pink and blue was the pleasing hue
       Am         D7       G
Of the tickle-toe teaser's claws
   C
We sat on the edge of a sandy ledge
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And shot at the whistling bee
          C
While the rugabug bats wore waterproof hats
        G7            C
As they dipped in the shining sea
 
   { CHORUS }
      C
      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
        F          G7   C
      A-sailing we will go
                   G7   C  F         C
      I'll stay no more on England's shore
         F   C   G7 C  G7
      So let the music play
          C
      I'm off for the morning train
         F         G7     C
      To cross the raging main
                    G7   C      F      C
      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
          F        G7    C
      Ten thousand miles away
 
 
[Verse 6]
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On rugabug bark from dawn till dark
   G7                C
We dined till we all had grown
  F         D7           G
Uncommonly shrunk when a Chinese junk
     Am          D7       G
Came up from the Torrible Zone
        C
She was stubby and square, but we didn't much care
      F   C   G7  C  G7
So we merrily put to sea
       C
And we left all the crew of the junk to chew
       G7          C
On the bark of the rubabug tree
 
   { CHORUS }
      C
      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
        F          G7   C
      A-sailing we will go
                   G7   C  F         C
      I'll stay no more on England's shore
         F   C   G7 C  G7
      So let the music play
          C
      I'm off for the morning train
         F         G7     C
      To cross the raging main
                    G7   C      F      C
      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
          F        G7    C
      Ten thousand miles away