The Good Ship Kangaroo chords by Planxty

Chords with lyrics

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

Verse:

 D MajorD               C majorC
Once I was a waitin' man that lived at home at ease
 G+G     C majorC  G+G     D MajorD        G+G
Now I am a mariner that ploughs the angry seas
D MajorD                 C majorC
I always loved seafarin' life, I bid my love adieu
  G+G         C majorC  G+G         D MajorD      G+G
I shipped as steward and cook, me boys, on board the Kangaroo

Chorus:

 D MajorD           A minorAm          C majorC      G+G
Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
     G+G         C majorC    G+G    D MajorD     G+G
As we sailed away through Milford Bay on board the Kangaroo

Verse:

  D MajorD                  C majorC
"Think of me, oh think of me," she mournfully did say
  G+G         C majorC   G+G    D MajorD    G+G
"When you are in a foreign land and I am far away
 D MajorD                 C majorC
Take this lucky tuppenny bit, it'll make you bear in mind
 G+G           C majorC    G+G     D MajorD       G+G
That lovin' trustin' faithful heart you left in tears behind."

  D MajorD                     C majorC
"Cheer Up, cheer up, my own true love. Don't weep so bitterly,"
    G+G           C majorC      G+G     D MajorD       G+G
She sobbed, she sighed, she choked, she cried and could not say goodbye
  D MajorD                 C majorC
"I won't be gone for very long, 'tis but a month or two
   G+G     C majorC   G+G        D MajorD     G+G
When I will return again of course I´ll visit you."

Chorus:

 D MajorD           A minorAm          C majorC      G+G
Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
     G+G         C majorC    G+G    D MajorD     G+G
As we sailed away through Milford Bay on board the Kangaroo

Verse:

   D MajorD                C majorC
Our ship it was homeward bound from many's the foreign shore
   G+G         C majorC  G+G    D MajorD     G+G
And many´s the foreign present unto me love I bore
   D MajorD                 C majorC
I brought tortoises from Tenerife and toys from Timbuktu
   G+G      C majorC   G+G     D MajorD   G+G
A augmentedA china rat, a Bengal cat and a Bombay cockatoo

   D MajorD                C majorC
Paid off I sought her dwellin' on a street above the town
 G+G          C majorC     G+G     D MajorD       G+G
Where an ancient dame upon the line was hangin' out her gown
  D MajorD                     C majorC
"Where is me love? " "She´s vanished, sir, about six months ago
 G+G              C majorC    G+G    D MajorD       G+G
With a smart young man that drives the van for Chaplin, Son and Co.

Chorus:

 D MajorD           A minorAm          C majorC      G+G
Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
     G+G         C majorC    G+G    D MajorD     G+G
As we sailed away through Milford Bay on board the Kangaroo

Verse:

 D MajorD                      C majorC
Here's a health to dreams of married life, to soap suds and blue
 G+G            C majorC   G+G     D MajorD      G+G
Heart's true love and patent starch and washin' soda too
 D MajorD                  C majorC
I'll go unto some foreign shore, no longer can I stay
   G+G       C majorC   G+G     D MajorD      C majorC
And with some China hottentot I'll throw meself away

  D MajorD                C majorC
Me love she is no foolish girl, her age it is two score
  G+G        G+G  C majorC        D MajorD      G+G
Me love she is no spinster, she's been married twice before
  D MajorD                C majorC
I cannot say it was her wealth that stole me heart away;
 G+G          C majorC  G+G   D MajorD       G+G
She's a washer in a laundry for one and nine a day

Chorus:

 D MajorD           A minorAm          C majorC      G+G
Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
     G+G         C majorC    G+G    D MajorD     G+G
As we sailed away through Milford Bay on board the Kangaroo