Old Maui chords by The Dreadnoughts

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Am

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:

    Am     E      F    E
It's a damn tough life full of toil and strife
  F    G  Am
We whalermen undergo
    Am      E       F   E
And we don't give a damn when the day is done
  F    G     Am

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

    Am      E      F     E
And we don't give a damn when we drink our rum
     F    G  Am
With the girls of Old Maui


chorus 1:

    C      G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    Am     Em
Rolling down to Old Maui
   Am    E       F   E
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    F    G  Am
Rolling down to Old Maui


verse 2:

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


chorus 2:

     C     G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
     Am     Em
Rolling down to Old Maui
   Am    E       F   E
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    F    G  Am
Rolling down to Old Maui.


verse 3:

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


chorus 3:

    C      G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    Am     Em
Rolling down to Old Maui
   Am    E       F   E
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    F    G  Am
Rolling down to Old Maui.


verse 4:

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


chorus 4:

    C      G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    Am     Em
Rolling down to Old Maui
   Am    E       F   E
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    F    G  Am
Rolling down to Old Maui.


chorus 5:

    C      G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    Am     Em
Rolling down to Old Maui
   Am    E       F   E
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    F    G  Am
Rolling down to Old Maui.