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Word and Music by James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett and Timothy Mayer from James Taylor's 1981 album,\r\n\"Dad Loves His Work.\"\r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n \r\n    C<\/span>                 F<\/span>         A#<\/span>          C<\/span>\r\nNow back when this earth was a silver blue jewel\r\n                    F<\/span>            A#<\/span>            C<\/span>\r\nAnd back when your grandfather's fathers were young\r\nAm<\/span>            D<\/span>                G<\/span>              C<\/span>\r\nMen of these shores made and gave up their lives\r\nAm<\/span>           D<\/span>             G<\/span>\r\nPulling up fish from the sea\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n \r\n      C<\/span>                     A#\/C<\/span>\r\nWhile down in the African slavery trade\r\nC<\/span>                     A#\/C<\/span>\r\nStealing young men to cut sugar cane\r\n C<\/span>            A#<\/span>         F\/A<\/span>    A#<\/span>     C<\/span>\r\nRum to New Bedford and codfish from Maine\r\n                        A#<\/span>           Ab<\/span>    A#<\/span>  C<\/span>\r\nThey were building a wall that will always remain\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n \r\n                                  A#\/C<\/span>\r\nOh, the crown and the cross, the musket and the chain\r\n     C<\/span>                        A#\/C<\/span>\r\nThe white man's religion, the family name\r\n       C<\/span>            A#<\/span>         F\/A<\/span>   A#<\/span>     C<\/span>\r\nTwo hundred years later and who is to blame?\r\n                   A#<\/span>             Ab<\/span>                    A#<\/span> C<\/span>\r\nThe captain or the cargo or the juice of the sugar cane?\r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\n \r\n     C<\/span>           F<\/span>              A#<\/span>            C<\/span>\r\nThe doryman he knows when the riptides will run\r\n                    F<\/span>         A#<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\nHe sets out his nets and he waits in the sun\r\n    Am<\/span>            D<\/span>              G<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\nHe thinks of his family and drinks of his rum\r\n        Am<\/span>               D<\/span>          G<\/span>\r\nAnd he waits for the codfish to come\r\n \r\n[Verse 5]\r\n \r\n          C<\/span>                          A#\/C<\/span>\r\nIt's the same goddamn ocean that keeps them alive\r\n         C                        A#\/C\r\nIt will swallow you up, it will let you survive\r\n         C                A#          F\/A   A# C\r\nIt will heal you and steal you and take you away\r\n                    A#           Ab  A#  C\r\nLike a note in a bottle with nothing to say\r\n \r\n[Verse 6]\r\n \r\n    C               F             A#         C\r\nNow back when this earth was a silver blue jewel\r\n                 F            A#            C\r\nBack when your grandfather's fathers were young\r\n Am            D                 G             C\r\nMen of these shores made and gave up their lives\r\n Am           D             G Dm\/F  Cm\/D#  F  C\r\nPulling up fish from the sea\r\n
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