Five O'clock In The Morning chords by The Mccalmans

• Capo on 4th
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: E

Chorus:
     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           Am           Dm       G
Time to get ready, we're sailing away
     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           G        F    F G G
Time to get ready to sail

Verse 1:
   C           Am            F          G
We rise in the morning, sail out on the tide
G                       C    G
Silent we slip from the quay
         C         Am           F          G
With the gulls overhead and the seals alongside
G                      C   G
Proudly we head out to sea

Chorus:
     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           Am           Dm       G
Time to get ready, we're sailing away
     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           G        F    F G G
Time to get ready to sail

Verse 2:
      C           Am           F          G
We'll fish in the Minches fair weather or foul
G                       C    G
Living our lives on the sea
     C             Am            F          G
It's hard and it's tough and the pay's not enough
    G                         C   G
But what other life can there be

Chorus:
     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           Am           Dm       G
Time to get ready, we're sailing away
     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           G        F    F G G
Time to get ready to sail

Verse 3:
  C            Am           F            G
A trawlerman's plight is to work day and night
    G                          C     G
And grab an hour's sleep in between
C           Am           F            G
Casting the nets out and hauling them in
G                          C     G
Sometimes not a fish to be seen

Chorus:
     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           Am           Dm       G
Time to get ready, we're sailing away
     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           G        F    F G G
Time to get ready to sail

Verse 4:
         C               Am         F               G
We'll be cold, tired and hungry and drenched to the skin
      G                      C     G
As we head back to Stornoway town
         C            Am           F           G
With our catch safely landed we'll have a good dram
       G                         C     G
In The Clachan, The Lewis or The Crown

Chorus:
     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           Am           Dm       G
Time to get ready, we're sailing away
     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           G        F    F G G
Time to get ready to sail

     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           Am           Dm       G
Time to get ready, we're sailing away
     C      Am           F  C
It's five o'clock in the morning
C           G        F    F G G
Time to get ready to sail

C           G        F    F G G
Time to get ready to sail