The Old Figurehead Carver chords by Gordon Bok

Chords with lyrics

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

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
E MajorE  A augmentedA

Verse:
A augmentedA
I have done my bit of carving
   B minorBm
Figureheads of quaint design
            E MajorE
For the Olives and the Ruddocks
    D MajorD         A augmentedA
And the famous Black Ball Line
        G+G      A augmentedA
Brigantines and barques and clippers
     D MajorD          B minorBm
Brigs and schooners, lithe and tall
            E MajorE
But the bounding Marco Polo
    D MajorD        A augmentedA
Was the proudest of them all

Chorus:
       G+G    A augmentedA
And while my hand is steady
D MajorD         B minorBm
While my eyes are good
         E MajorE
I will carve the music
    D MajorD       A augmentedA    E MajorE
Of the wind into the wood

Verse:
   A augmentedA
I can see that white-winged clipper
    B minorBm
Reeling under scudding clouds
           E MajorE
Tramping down a hazy skyline
    D MajorD       A augmentedA
With a Norther in her shrouds
   G+G         A augmentedA
I can feel her lines of beauty
    D MajorD           B minorBm
See her flecked with spume and brine
              E MajorE
As she drives her scuppers under
     D MajorD       A augmentedA
And that figurehead of mine

Chorus:
       G+G    A augmentedA
And while my hand is steady
D MajorD         B minorBm
While my eyes are good
         E MajorE
I will carve the music
    D MajorD       A augmentedA    E MajorE
Of the wind into the wood

Verse:
     A augmentedA
'Twas of seasoned pine I made it
      B minorBm
Clear from outer bark to core
            E MajorE
And the finest piece of timber
     D MajorD           A augmentedA
From the mast-pond on Straight Shore
   G+G       A augmentedA
Every bite of axe or chisel
   D MajorD       B minorBm
Every ringing mallet welt
                E MajorE
Brought from out that piece of timber
    D MajorD       A augmentedA
All the spirit that I felt

Chorus:
       G+G    A augmentedA
And while my hand is steady
D MajorD         B minorBm
While my eyes are good
         E MajorE
I will carve the music
    D MajorD       A augmentedA    E MajorE
Of the wind into the wood

Verse:
   A augmentedA
I had read of Marco Polo
     B minorBm
Till his daring deeds were mine
           E MajorE
And I saw them all a-glowing
    D MajorD       A augmentedA
In that balsam-scented pine
       G+G     A augmentedA
Saw his eyes alight with purpose
    D MajorD       B minorBm
Facing every vagrant breeze
             E MajorE
Saw him lifting, free and careless
   D MajorD       A augmentedA
Over all the Seven Seas

Chorus:
       G+G    A augmentedA
And while my hand is steady
D MajorD         B minorBm
While my eyes are good
         E MajorE
I will carve the music
    D MajorD       A augmentedA    E MajorE
Of the wind into the wood

Verse:
     A augmentedA
That was how I did my carving
    B minorBm
Beat of heart and stroke of hand
           E MajorE
Blended into life and action
    D MajorD       A augmentedA
All the purpose that I planned
         G+G      A augmentedA
Flowing robes and wind-tossed tresses
     D MajorD          B minorBm
Forms of beauty, strength, design
              E MajorE
Saw them all, and strove to carve them
     D MajorD       A augmentedA
In those figureheads of mine

Chorus:
       G+G    A augmentedA
And while my hand is steady
D MajorD         B minorBm
While my eyes are good
         E MajorE
I will carve the music
    D MajorD       A augmentedA    E MajorE D MajorD A augmentedA
Of the wind into the wood

Verse:
A augmentedA
I am old, my hands are feeble
    B minorBm
And my outward eyes are dim
           E MajorE
But I see again those clippers
    D MajorD        A augmentedA
Lifting o'er the ocean's rim
           G+G    A augmentedA
Great white fleet of reeling rovers
   D MajorD        B minorBm
Wind above, the surf beneath
          E MajorE
And the Marco Polo leading
    D MajorD       A augmentedA
With my carving in her teeth

Chorus:
       G+G    A augmentedA
And while my hand is steady
D MajorD         B minorBm
While my eyes are good
         E MajorE
I will carve the music
    D MajorD       A augmentedA
Of the wind into the wood

Chorus:
       G+G    A augmentedA
And while my hand is steady
D MajorD         B minorBm
While my eyes are good
         E MajorE
I will carve the music
    D MajorD       A augmentedA    E MajorE A augmentedA
Of the wind into the wood