Chords with lyrics
Verse 1:G+G
C majorC Remembering back when I was a kid
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D MajorD I'd sneak down to the docks
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C majorC I'd watch the old men carving wood
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D MajorD I'd watch the sailors tying knots
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D MajorD But the thing I remember best
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G+G Was grey-haired old Patch Eye
C majorC And the stories that he'd tell me about
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D MajorD
G+G His younger days as we watched the ships go by
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D MajorD He talked about his missing eye and
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G+G He talked about his wooden leg
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G+G But he never told me about the old tattoo
D MajorD
G+G On his right arm that said Meg Verse 2:
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C majorC He said he was captain of a pirate ship
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D MajorD Sailing seas both blue and green
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C majorC And he said that all pirates gots to have a patch
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D MajorD So's they can look real mean
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D MajorD He'd make the bad guys walk the plank
C majorC The pretty ladies, he would save
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G+G Then he'd take the treasures from the ship, then sink it to a watery grave
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D MajorD He talked about his missing eye and
C majorC
G+G He talked about his wooden leg
C majorC
G+G But he never told me about the old tattoo
D MajorD
G+G On his right arm that said Meg Verse 3:
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C majorC He told many a story about his wooden leg
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D MajorD As he sat there spinning yarns
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C majorC Once he'd lost it to a mamba snake
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D MajorD Down in the Amazon
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D MajorD Another time it was way out west
C majorC In a gunfight, or so he said, but
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D MajorD
G+G That's alright, a man's got two legs, y'know, he could've lost his head... Chorus:
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D MajorD He talked about his missing eye and
C majorC
G+G He talked about his wooden leg
C majorC
G+G But he never told me about the old tattoo
D MajorD
G+G On his right arm that said Meg Chorus:
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D MajorD He told about his missing eye and
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G+G He told me how he lost his leg
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G+G But he never told me how he lost the love
D MajorD
G+G Of brown haired blue eyed Meg
ⓘ Guitar chords for 'Ballad Of Patch Eye And Meg' by Michelle Shocked, artist. Michelle Shocked was born in 1962.