The Ocean Ranger chords by Eddie Coffey

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse:
   D                                      G
In the cold Canadian waters where there's danger,
    D                                A
On the fifteenth day in a February gale,
      D                           G
When the chilly waters claimed the Ocean Ranger,
     D               A                 D
Not one human ever lived to tell the tale.

Chorus:
     G
For three long weeks on the Ocean minds,
            D
Was the children made them valentines,
           A
As they waited for their fathers
      D
To return home from the cold.
             G
Left their wives, their sons and daughters,
              D
With their mothers and their fathers,
         A
In the cold Canadian waters;
          G                D
Lord have mercy on their souls.

Verse:
   D                                         G
From time to tide you understand a mother's feelings,
  D                               A
Or the feeling of a father for his son;
  D                                            G
But those little children's hearts they must be bleeding,
  D                          A                 D
When they're old enough to know their father's gone.

Chorus:
     G
For three long weeks on the Ocean minds,
            D
Was the children made them valentines,
           A
As they waited for their fathers
      D
To return home from the cold.
             G
Left their wives, their sons and daughters,
              D
With their mothers and their fathers,
         A
In the cold Canadian waters;
          G                D
Lord have mercy on their souls.

Verse:
  D                                            G
Heaven knows that on the battlefield there's danger,
 D                                          A
And there's danger for the men down in the mine;
  D                                  G
There was danger all around the Ocean Ranger,
  D                              A                  D
And for those men who left their loved ones all behind.

Chorus:
     G
For three long weeks on the Ocean minds,
            D
Was the children made them valentines,
           A
As they waited for their fathers
      D
To return home from the cold.
             G
Left their wives, their sons and daughters,
              D
With their mothers and their fathers,
         A
In the cold Canadian waters;
          G                D
Lord have mercy on their souls.

Lord have mercy on their souls