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