Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (
E MajorE 
A augmentedA 
D MajorD 
G+G 
BB E MajorE)
Key: 
C majorC
Difficulty: Novice
Verse 1:
C majorC
I love to sit around the yacht club bar
FF C majorC
and talk about the things we’re going to do.
I love to sit around the yacht club bar
D MajorD G+G
because it doesn’t move.
c
The swells are big and the winds are high
FF C majorC
but that don’t bother me.
C majorC
Cause I never get lost and my tummy doesn’t toss
G7G7 C majorC
It’s a wonderful life on the sea.
Verse 2:
C majorC
My boat it is a big one boys.
FF C majorC
My crew it is the best.
We race around the entrance buoy
D MajorD G+G
beating all the rest.
C majorC
We’re the first ones home with a bent elbow
FF
and a powerful salt spray thirst.
C majorC G7G7 C majorC
We sit around and drink all night and see who comes in first.
Verse 3:
C majorC
I took her out one Sunday,
FF C majorC
we got about five miles out
The wind it was a screaming,
D MajorD G+G
right dead out of the south.
C majorC
The waves they must have been two feet high,
FF C majorC
the swells at least one more.
C majorC G7G7 C majorC
I’m so lost and my tummy is tossed, I’ll never get back to the shore.
Verse 4:
C majorC
My head it was a reeling,
FF C majorC
my feet got tangled up.
C majorC
Those damn old sheets were everywhere,
D MajorD G+G
just trying to trip me up.
C majorC
The halyard broke, the boom fell down,
FF C majorC
the main took off like a bird.
C majorC
Mayday was my final cry
G7G7 C majorC
as I dived beneath my berth.
Verse 5:
C majorC
My sailing days are over,
FF C majorC
cause of that great scare
C.
You others take a warning,
D MajorD G+G
and don’t you go out there.
C majorC
There’s winds and seas and swells so high,
FF C majorC
how can you stay afloat
C majorC
Be like me and drink to the sea
G7G7
and don’t untie your boat.
