The Yacht Club Bar chords by Traditional

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
C
I love to sit around the yacht club bar
F                          C
and talk about the things we’re going to do.

I love to sit around the yacht club bar
D                  G
because it doesn’t move.
c

The swells are big and the winds are high
    F                 C
but that don’t bother me.
C
Cause I never get lost and my tummy doesn’t toss
G7                         C
It’s a wonderful life on the sea.

Verse 2:
C
My boat it is a big one boys.
F                 C
My crew it is the best.

We race around the entrance buoy
D              G
beating all the rest.
C
We’re the first ones home with a bent elbow
F
and a powerful salt spray thirst.
C                                 G7                C
We sit around and drink all night and see who comes in first.

Verse 3:
C
I took her out one Sunday,
F                       C
we got about five miles out

The wind it was a screaming,
D                    G
right dead out of the south.
C
The waves they must have been two feet high,
F                       C
the swells at least one more.
C                                   G7                           C
I’m so lost and my tummy is tossed, I’ll never get back to the shore.

Verse 4:
C
My head it was a reeling,
F                    C
my feet got tangled up.
C
Those damn old sheets were everywhere,
D                       G
just trying to trip me up.
C
The halyard broke, the boom fell down,
F                        C
the main took off like a bird.
C
Mayday was my final cry
G7                    C
as I dived beneath my berth.

Verse 5:
C
My sailing days are over,
F                     C
cause of that great scare
C.
You others take a warning,
D                       G
and don’t you go out there.
C
There’s winds and seas and swells so high,
F                     C
how can you stay afloat
C
Be like me and drink to the sea
G7
and don’t untie your boat.