Ballad Of Patch Eye And Meg chords by Michelle Shocked

Verse 1:

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

Chorus:

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


Verse 2:

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


Chorus:

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


Verse 3:

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


Chorus:

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


Chorus:

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