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Sean Mccann - Son Of A Sailor Chords

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Son Of A Sailor Chords

(ver. 1)
Sean Mccann
The chords are played as follows:
C:        x3201x
CM9/B:    x20010
Am:       x02210
G:        320003
F:        x03211


Intro:

C,CM9/B,Am,G x2


Verse 1:
   C             CM9/B    Am             G
Up every morning early, I barely hit the bed
  C               CM9/B             Am             G
A good man has to break his back to earn his daily bread
     C                   CM9/B   Am              G
Some spend their lives a-diggin, wish away their time
    C          CM9/B             Am             G
But I am never happier than when hauling in the lines


Chorus:
      C        CM9/B     Am         G
I'm a son of a sailor, a sea-faring man
  C            CM9/B        Am         G
I live off the water by the work of my hands
        C           CM9/B        Am          G
With my face to the wind, and my back to the land,
      F                        G            C
I'm a son of a sailor, and the sea, I command


Verse 2:
   C            CM9/B          Am         G
My father was a fisherman like his father before
     C            CM9/B           Am            G
So I never really got a chance to labor safe on shore
   C             CM9/B         Am                        G
My body hard and blistered, my bones bleached white with salt
       C             CM9/B        Am                 G
And my ears are ever listening to hear the boatman's call


Chorus:
      C        CM9/B     Am         G
I'm a son of a sailor, a sea-faring man
  C            CM9/B        Am         G
I live off the water by the work of my hands
        C           CM9/B        Am          G
With my face to the wind, and my back to the land,
      F                        G            C
I'm a son of a sailor, and the sea, I command


Verse 3:
C                CM9/B         Am       G
When my days are over, when my time has come
      C                 CM9/B        Am            G
Lower me down below the bow, let the waves take me home
      C             CM9/B           Am             G
There is no sweeter suffering for a sailor lost at sea
        C               CM9/B             Am          G
Than to see his soul at sunrise leave his body to the deep


Chorus:
      C        CM9/B     Am         G
I'm a son of a sailor, a sea-faring man
  C            CM9/B        Am         G
I live off the water by the work of my hands
        C           CM9/B        Am          G
With my face to the wind, and my back to the land,
      F                        G            C
I'm a son of a sailor, and the sea, I command
      F                        G            C
I'm a son of a sailor, and the sea, I command
            
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