WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Gordon Bok - Ocean Station Bravo Chords | Ver. 1
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Ocean Station Bravo, North Atlantic Ocean
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Somewhere south of Greenland, somewhere far from home
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Nothing on the radar, nothing on the sonar
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Hove to and drifting on this ocean all alone
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She was the CGC Sebago, Ocean Station Vessel
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High Endurance Cutter, Number 42
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Studying the weather, aids to navigation
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Plotting ships and aircraft as they come sailing through
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Just a speck upon the ocean, centre of a circle
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Nothing but horizon, wind and sea and sky
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This whole world in motion, blowing from the Northwest
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Not a hint of sunshine, just the grey waves rolling by
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Lookout calls the bridge-watch: "Objects in the water
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Moving Surface Contact, off the starboard bow"
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Plot 'em on the radar, fire up the sonar
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Listen for the echoes, Oh, can't you hear them now?
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And there's echoes in the headphones, whale-sound from the speakers
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Filling all the spaces inside C.I.C.
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Songs of love and travel, songs of generations
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Echoes of the ages in cetacean harmony
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But me, I had to answer, I sang, I talked, I whistled
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Even played the mouth-harp through the microphone
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They returned the favour with chirps and clicks and whistles
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Songs of celebration not so different from our own
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And when the watch was over, out onto the bridge wing
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You can see those sounding singers as they breach and sport and play
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Just a pod of humpbacks, farewell flukes a-waving
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But a memory worth saving as we travelled on our way
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For we'd had a conversation with Leviathan that day
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Ocean Station Bravo, North Atlantic Ocean
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Somewhere south of Greenland, somewhere far from home
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Nothing on the radar, nothing on the sonar
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Hove to and drifting