Ballad Of Patch Eye And Meg chords by Michelle Shocked

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:

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Remembering back when I was a kid
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I'd sneak down to the docks
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I'd watch the old men carving wood
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I'd watch the sailors tying knots
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But the thing I remember best
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Was grey-haired old Patch Eye
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And the stories that he'd tell me about
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His younger days as we watched the ships go by

Chorus:

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He talked about his missing eye and
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He talked about his wooden leg
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But he never told me about the old tattoo
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On his right arm that said Meg


Verse 2:

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He said he was captain of a pirate ship
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Sailing seas both blue and green
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And he said that all pirates gots to have a patch
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So's they can look real mean
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He'd make the bad guys walk the plank
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The pretty ladies, he would save
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Then he'd take the treasures from the ship, then sink it to a watery grave


Chorus:

G+G          D MajorD
He talked about his missing eye and
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He talked about his wooden leg
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But he never told me about the old tattoo
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On his right arm that said Meg

Verse 3:

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He told many a story about his wooden leg
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As he sat there spinning yarns
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Once he'd lost it to a mamba snake
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Down in the Amazon
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Another time it was way out west
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In a gunfight, or so he said, but
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That's alright, a man's got two legs, y'know, he could've lost his head...


Chorus:

G+G          D MajorD
He talked about his missing eye and
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He talked about his wooden leg
C majorC               G+G
But he never told me about the old tattoo
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On his right arm that said Meg


Chorus:

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He told about his missing eye and
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He told me how he lost his leg
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But he never told me how he lost the love
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Of brown haired blue eyed Meg