I'm Your Captain chords by Grand Funk Railroad

Guitar chords with lyrics

Grand Funk Railroad-I'm Your Captain
Album-Closer to Home/ Capitol Records

In the Key of D MajorD major
Moderate Speed

Here's the riff at the beginning before the verse riff,

e------------------|
b------------0h1h0-|
G---7-5-4-0h2------|
D--0-0-0-0---------|     play this 4 times
A------------------|
E------------------|

Here's the verse riff for all the verses,

  Cadd9Cadd9
e-2-0-2-3---3-|
b-3-3-3-3---3-|
G-2-2-2-2---0-|
D-0-0-0-0---2-|
A-----------3-|
E-------------|


Verse 1- this is the format for all the verses

Cadd9Cadd9
Everybody, listen to me
Cadd9Cadd9
And return me, my ship
Cadd9Cadd9
I'm your captain, I'm your captain
Cadd9Cadd9
Although I'm feeling, mighty sick

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verse2

I've been lost now, days uncounted
And it's been months since, I've seen home
Can you hear me, can you hear me
Or am I, all alone


verse3

If you return me, to my home port
I will kiss you, mother earth
Take me back now, take me back now
To the port, of my birth


Bridge

Bb majorBb
A minorAm i in my cabin dreaming, or are you really scheming
A augmentedA
To take my ship away from me
Bb majorBb
You'd better think about it, I just can't live without it
A augmentedA
So please don't take my ship away from me

Go back to playing the verse riff a few times, then into verses 4 and 5


verse4

I can feel the hand, of a stranger
And it's tightening, round my throat
Heaven help me, heaven help me
Take this stranger, from my boat


verse5

I'm your captain, I'm your captain
Although i'm feeling, mighty sick
Everybody, listen to me
And return me, my ship


verse6

I'm your captain, yea yea yea yea (x4)


then play the outro till the end. the outro is very slow and not at all like the verses.


outro
C majorC
I'm getting closer to my home (repeat till end)


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