James French [email protected]
*Listen To Song For Strumming*


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Intro

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Verse

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We sent out the SOS call
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It was a quater past four 
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In the morning
         Cmaj7           Em            Em7
When the storm broke our second anchor line.
G              Cmaj7
Four months at sea.
     G              Cmaj7
Four months of calm seas
           G              Cmaj7
Only to be pounded in the shallows
           Em             Em7
Off of the tip of Montauk Point.


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They call them rogues.
            G        Cmaj7
They travel fast and alone,
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One hundred foot faces
              Em         Em7
Of God's good ocean gone wrong
               G         Cmaj7
What they call love is a risk,
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Cause you will always get hit
       G
Out of nowhere 
        Cmaj7        Em         Em7
By some wave and end up on your own.


Chorus

C               G   
The hole in the hull defied the crews attempts 
Em         Em7
To bail us out.
C               G
And flooded the engines and radio
Em              Em7
And half buried bow.


Verse

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Your tongue is a rudder.
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It steers the whole ship.
           G               Cmaj7
Sends your words past your lips
              Em               Em7
Or keeps them safe behind your teeth.
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But the wrong words will strand you.
         G                Cmaj7
Come off course while you sleep.
           G           Cmaj7
Sweep your boat out to sea
                Em          Em7
Or dashed it to bits on the reef.


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The vessel groans
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The ocean pressures its frame.
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Off the port I see the lighthouse
            Em            Em7
Through the sleet and the rain.
           G            Cmaj7
And I wish for one more day 
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To give my love and repay debts.
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But the morning finds our bodies
          Em           Em7
Washed up thirty miles west.


Chorus

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They say that the captain 
                    Em
Stays fast with the ship 
                  Em7
Through still and storm.
C                  G
But this ain't the Dakota.
                 Em
And the water is cold.
                           Em7
We won't have to fight for long.



Ending

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This is the end.

This story's old

But it goes on and on 
         Cmaj7
Until we disappear.

Calm me and let me taste
 
The salt that you breathed
               G
While you were underneath.

I am the one who haunts your dreams
                            Cmaj7
Of mountains sunk below the sea.

I spoke the words but never
                                      Em
Gave a thought to what they all could mean.

I know that this is what you want.
                           Em7
A funeral keeps both of us apart.

You know that you are not alone.
                          G
Need you like water in my lungs.