Three Fishers chords by Stan Rogers

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

Capo 2nd fret

Picking pattern:
 A minorAm       Amsus2
|---------------|---------------|
|--------1------|--------0------|
|------2-----2--|------2-----2--|
|----2-----2----|----2-----2----|
|--0------------|--0------------|
|---------------|---------------|

Intro:
A minorAm  Amsus2  A minorAm  Amsus2

Verse 1:
   A minorAm      Amsus2   FF    G+G
Three fishers went sailing out into the west,
  A minorAm    Amsus2   E minorEm    G+G
Out into the west as the sun went down,
   FF       FF     C majorC       G+G
Each thought on the woman that loved him the best,
    A minorAm       Amsus2    FF     G+G
And the children stood watching them out of the town,

Chorus:
  C majorC    C majorC    FF     G+G
For men must work and women must weep,
      A minorAm    Amsus2  E minorEm   G+G
For there's little to earn and many to keep,
    FF    FF   A minorAm  G+G
And the harbour bar be moanin',
  A minorAm   FF   G+G   C majorC
The harbour bar be moanin'.

Verse 2:
Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower,
They trimmed the lamps as the sun went down,
And they looked at the squall and they looked at the shower,
And the night wrack came rollin' in, ragged and brown.

Chorus

Verse 3:
Three corpses lay out on the shining sand,
In the morning gleam as the tide went down,
And the women were weepin' and wringin' their hands,
For those who would never come back to the town.