St Gregorys Academy - Rolling Down To Old Maui chords by Traditional

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
    E minorEm     B7B7      E minorEm
It's a damn tough life full of toil and strife
  E minorEm    B7B7  E minorEm
We whalermen undergo.
          B7B7      E minorEm   B7B7
And we don't give a damn when the gale is done
  E minorEm    B7B7    E minorEm
How hard the winds did blow.
     G+G            D MajorD
For we're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
    E minorEm         B7B7
With a good ship, taut and free.
    E minorEm      B7B7      E minorEm    B7B7
And we don't give a damn when we drink our rum
     E minorEm    B7B7 E minorEm
With the girls of Old Maui.

Chorus:
    G+G       D MajorD
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    E minorEm       B7B7
Rolling down to Old Maui.
   E minorEm    B7B7       E minorEm   B7B7
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground,
    E minorEm   B7B7   E minorEm
Rolling down to Old Maui.


Verse 2:
   E minorEm   B7B7      E minorEm    B7B7
Once more we sail with a northerly gale
      E minorEm   B7B7    E minorEm
Through the ice and wind and rain.
       B7B7      E minorEm    B7B7
Them coconut fronds, them tropical lands
  E minorEm     B minorBm  E minorEm
We soon shall see again.
  G+G          D MajorD
Six hellish months have passed away
    E minorEm       B7B7
On the cold Kamchatka Sea.
  E minorEm    B7B7       E minorEm   B7B7
But now we're bound from the Arctic ground
    E minorEm   B7B7  E minorEm
Rolling down to Old Maui.

Chorus:
    G+G       D MajorD
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    E minorEm       B7B7
Rolling down to Old Maui.
   E minorEm    B7B7       E minorEm   B7B7
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground,
    E minorEm   B7B7   E minorEm
Rolling down to Old Maui.


Verse 3:
   E minorEm   B7B7      E minorEm    B7B7
Once more we sail with a northerly gale
E minorEm     B7B7   E minorEm
Towards our island home.
       B7B7      E minorEm   B7B7
Our mainmast sprung, our whaling done,
    E minorEm     B7B7   E minorEm
And we ain't got far to roam.
  G+G         D MajorD
Our stuns'l bones is carried away,
   E minorEm        B7B7
What care we for that sound?
 E minorEm   B7B7    E minorEm  B7B7
A augmentedA living gale is after us,
   E minorEm    B7B7    E minorEm
Thank God we're homeward bound.


Chorus:
    G+G       D MajorD
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    E minorEm       B7B7
Rolling down to Old Maui.
   E minorEm    B7B7       E minorEm   B7B7
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground,
    E minorEm   B7B7   E minorEm
Rolling down to Old Maui.


Verse 4:
  E minorEm    B7B7         E minorEm   B7B7
How soft the breeze through the island trees,
    E minorEm   B7B7  E minorEm
Now the ice is far astern.
      B7B7      E minorEm    B7B7
Them native maids, them tropical glades
   E minorEm    B7B7  E minorEm
Are a-waiting our return.
   G+G          D MajorD
Even now their big brown eyes look out
    E minorEm        B7B7
Hoping some fine day to see
  E minorEm  B7B7       E minorEm    B7B7
Our baggy sails runnin' 'fore the gales
    E minorEm   B7B7  E minorEm
Rolling down to old Maui.


Final Chorus:
    G+G       D MajorD
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
    E minorEm       B7B7
Rolling down to Old Maui.
   E minorEm    B7B7       E minorEm   B7B7
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground,
    E minorEm   B7B7   E minorEm
Rolling down to Old Maui.