The Final Voyage Of The Wailers Essex chords by Rusty Cage

Chords with lyrics

C majorC      E minorEm      A minorAm      C majorC
I done my level best, to whomever's concerned
  C majorC      E minorEm      FF      G+G
For children of wailer's, we all take a turn
    DmDm     G+G         C majorC    A minorAm
Now we lay in our oars boat, us six men at sea
   DmDm     G+G         C majorC    A minorAm
And travel for home with rations for three
   DmDm     G+G         C majorC    A minorAm
Two ounces fresh water and hardtack a day
 FF          G+G    C majorC
But we'll see Nantucket again

  C majorC      E minorEm      A minorAm      C majorC
Forty days and forty nights, we followed the wind
  C majorC      E minorEm      FF      G+G
In the southern Pacific, many miles from land
   DmDm     G+G         C majorC    A minorAm
The first mate of Essex, and few crew with me
   DmDm     G+G         C majorC    A minorAm
Our captain George Pollard is lost at the sea
  DmDm     G+G         C majorC    A minorAm
And I look to the East and see nothing but blue
  FF          G+G    C majorC
So what can us starving men do?

   C majorC   G+G    FF        G+G
But sing, sing, we're on our way home
  C majorC   G+G    FF        G7G7
Across the Pacific, and through the unknown
  C majorC        E7E7            A minorAm
With God as our shepherd then no harm shall pass
 FF       G+G      C majorC
We'll be in Nantucket at last

  C7C7      FF             F7F7
But oh, how this skin of blistered leather pulls tight on our skulls
 C majorC       E7E7    A minorAm
As rations all dwindle away
   C7C7        FF       F7F7
And oh, how our dreams every night, of our stomachs so full
  DmDm     G+G    C majorC          A minorAm
But awake to find water to last two more days
   DmDm     G+G    C majorC          A minorAm
Our spirits all broken, our minds are all crazed
  DmDm     G+G    C majorC        E minorEm  A minorAm
And oh, how I'd kill for just one more good meal
   FF      G+G      C majorC
But home's a little farther away

   C majorC   G+G    FF        G+G
But sing, sing, we're on our way home
  C majorC   G+G    FF        G7G7
Across the Pacific, and through the unknown
  C majorC        E7E7            A minorAm
With God as our shepherd then no harm shall pass
 FF       G+G      C majorC
We'll be in Nantucket at last

     C7C7      FF             F7F7
But oh, when I look at my crewman, I see them looking back at me
  C majorC       E7E7    A minorAm
Humanity gone from their eyes
 C7C7        FF       F7F7
Once we were men of our god, and brothers at sea
  DmDm     G+G    C majorC          A minorAm
Those times weren't so long ago, but how quick they pass
 DmDm     G+G    C majorC          A minorAm
Was once death a stranger, now approaching us fast
 DmDm     G+G    C majorC          A minorAm
But we are Nantucket, the proud and the strong
  FF      G+G      C majorC
For Nantucket, we must travel on

  C7C7      FF             F7F7
But oh, how these hunger pangs drive all the thoughts in my brain
 C majorC       E7E7    A minorAm
And body dries up in the sun
 C7C7        FF       F7F7
Oh, cause it's meat and fresh water that the six of us crave
 DmDm     G+G    C majorC          A minorAm
So six bits of paper are tossed in the cap
  DmDm     G+G    C majorC          A minorAm
And six men reach in and each pull out a scrap
  DmDm     G+G    C majorC          A minorAm
And one man of six, with the unlucky draw
 FF      G+G      C majorC
Is one man to help feed us all