Old Maui chords by The Dreadnoughts

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: A minorAm

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:

    A minorAm     E MajorE      FF    E MajorE
It's a damn tough life full of toil and strife
  FF    G+G  A minorAm
We whalermen undergo
    A minorAm      E MajorE       FF   E MajorE
And we don't give a damn when the day is done
  FF    G+G     A minorAm

How hard the winds did blow
      C majorC            G+G
Cause we're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    A minorAm         E MajorE
With a good ship, taut and free

    A minorAm      E MajorE      FF     E MajorE
And we don't give a damn when we drink our rum
     FF    G+G  A minorAm
With the girls of Old Maui

chorus 1:

    C majorC      G+G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    A minorAm     E minorEm
Rolling down to Old Maui
   A minorAm    E MajorE       FF   E MajorE
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    FF    G+G  A minorAm
Rolling down to Old Maui


verse 2:

   A minorAm   E MajorE     FF     E MajorE
Once more we sail with a northerly gale
  FF     G+G   A minorAm
Towards our island home.
  A minorAm    E MajorE      FF   E MajorE
Our mainmast sprung, our whaling done,
    FF    G+G   A minorAm
And we ain't go far to roam.
   C majorC        G+G
Six hellish months we passed away
    A minorAm       E MajorE
On the cold Kamchatka Sea,
   A minorAm     E MajorE       FF   E MajorE
But now we're bound from the Arctic ground
     FF    G+G  A minorAm
Rolling down to Old Maui.

chorus 2:

     C majorC     G+G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
     A minorAm     E minorEm
Rolling down to Old Maui
   A minorAm    E MajorE       FF   E MajorE
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    FF    G+G  A minorAm
Rolling down to Old Maui.


verse 3:

   A minorAm   E MajorE     FF     E MajorE
Once more we sail with a northerly gale
    FF    G+G    A minorAm
To the ice and wind and rain.
   A minorAm    E MajorE      FF   E MajorE
Them coconut fronds, them tropical lands,
    FF   G+G  A minorAm
We soon shall see again.
  C majorC          G+G
Our stuns and bones are carried away
   A minorAm        E MajorE
What care we for that sound?
 A minorAm   E MajorE    FF   E MajorE
A augmentedA living gale is after us,
   FF     G+G    A minorAm
Thank God we're homeward bound.


chorus 3:

    C majorC      G+G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    A minorAm     E minorEm
Rolling down to Old Maui
   A minorAm    E MajorE       FF   E MajorE
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    FF    G+G  A minorAm
Rolling down to Old Maui.


verse 4:

   A minorAm   E MajorE     FF     E MajorE
How soft the breeze through the island trees,
    FF   G+G   A minorAm
Now the ice is far astern.
   A minorAm   E MajorE      FF    E MajorE
Them native maids, them tropical glades
  FF    G+G  A minorAm
Is awaiting our return.
   C majorC          G+G
Even now their big brown eyes look out
    A minorAm        E MajorE
Hoping some fine day to see
  A minorAm   E MajorE  FF    E MajorE
Our baggy sails runnin' for the gales
    FF    G+G  A minorAm
Rolling down to old Maui.


chorus 4:

    C majorC      G+G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    A minorAm     E minorEm
Rolling down to Old Maui
   A minorAm    E MajorE       FF   E MajorE
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    FF    G+G  A minorAm
Rolling down to Old Maui.


chorus 5:

    C majorC      G+G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    A minorAm     E minorEm
Rolling down to Old Maui
   A minorAm    E MajorE       FF   E MajorE
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    FF    G+G  A minorAm
Rolling down to Old Maui.