Pacific Pearl Co 1869 chords by The Diving Bell

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Intro:

C# B C# B

Verse 1:
    C#
We sailed the first great submarine
                                    B
Sank down in that dark machine, oh yeah
        C#
But we dove where no one had before
                               B
Breathing on the ocean floor, oh yeah
   F#          G#m        C#m
Saw  the bottom   of the world
    E                F#
It was empty it was cold

Chorus:
C#                               F#
  We set craft ashore stood there  like
                    B                      C#
The fools we were, oh yeah, like the fools we were
F# C#                     E          B                F#        B
     The violent will of technology transcends every boundary, oh yeah
               C#     E                     D#m         B
The bright blue  sea turns violet and then black seven fathoms deep

Verse 2:
        F#    G#m         C#m
Yet we dove to   harvest pearls
     E              F#
And found a barren reef
  C#         C#m
So  you can build the first great submarine
     C#
And still a failure be
B       B  C#
  Still a failure be

Verse 3:
 C#m        E
Julius the engineer
 D#m            F#
Poured the rum and built the fire, oh yeah
B   C#m                       E      B
 The   ocean she is vain and she is cruel
   E          F#
The lotus of her fools

Chorus:
 B             F#      G#m        C#m
  We passed the  bottle   and we sang
E                     F#
 For history and for shame
 C#
Behold the bitter monument and mourn
             B
The deepest diver spends bitter among humans

Verse 4:
C#m C#  B C#m
          The men all went their separate ways

Mostly back home to the states so yeah
C#m
   Until just the engineer remained where his heart and vessel
 B           B C#m  E       B     C#m                 E
Lay, oh yeah
at the low tide he  would meet her there along
     B   F#                  E              G#m
The shore  and the wind would echo forth the   beauty of her
 E                      B             F#
Form and force, oh yeah, of her form and force

Outro:
F# B F# F# B F#  E F#          B
So             so    That was 1869
F#          C#m
  In spring 2001
B F#     C#m
     They   thundercrossed it through with pearls
                  B
And murdered quite soon

Murderous song