Ode To Big Blue chords by Gordon Lightfoot

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: Bm

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Verse 1:
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The oceans of the world were the home of big blue
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He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew
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And the place that he loved best was the waters to the west
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Around the blue Pa cific he did roam

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Big Blue moved alone for a mighty blue was he
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And the battles of the whales was an awesome sight to see
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And he took them one by one and he drove them all away
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In the mating of the day he was the king


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Big blue had fifty wives and he sired forty sons
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Though most of them fell victim to the cruel harpoon guns
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Ah but he was too much wise to get caught by the gunners' eyes
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And so he lived at sea a hundred years


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His mouth was as large as a tunnel so they say
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His hide was thick as leather and his eyes quick and small
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And his back was all scarred by the times he got away
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And he knew the smell of whalers did Big Blue


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Big Blue passed away to his natural decay
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Beside the Arctic Circle as he travelled up that way
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And there never was a man who was born with a gunner's hand
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Who ever took a pan to Big Blue


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Now the gray whale has run and the sperm is almost done
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The finbacks and the Greenland rights have all passed and gone
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They've been taken by the men for the money they could spend
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And the killing never ends, it just goes on


Verse 7:
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The oceans of the world were the home of big blue
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He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew
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And the place that he loved best was the waters to the west
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Around the blue Pa cific he did roam


[Closing sequence}
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