Rogers Stan

Rogers Stan - Barretts Privateers Num guitar tab

From: Barrie McCombs

BARRETT'S PRIVATEERS Time: 2/2 Tenor: D Bass: C

- Stan Rogers, 1976, on: Fogarty's Cove, Between The Breaks, Home In Halifax

1 * 5 1

Oh, the year was seventeen seventy-eight

* 4 1 5 (*)

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

1 5 1 *

A letter of marque came from the king

* * 5 4

To the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen

CHORUS:

5 1 * 4

God damn them all, I was told,

1 4 1 4

We'd cruise the seas for A-merican gold

5 1 5 4 (*)

We'd fire no guns, shed no tears

1 4 1 4

But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier

* * 5 1

The last of Barrett's Priva-teers

1 * 5 1

Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town

* 4 1 5 (*)

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

1 5 1 *

For twenty brave men, all fishermen, who

* * 5 4

Would make for him the Antelope's crew

1 * 5 1

The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight

* 4 1 5 (*)

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

1 5 1 *

She'd a list to the port and her sails in rags

* * 5 4

And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags

1 * 5 1

On the King's birth-day we put to sea

* 4 1 5 (*)

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

1 5 1 *

We were ninety-one days to Mon-tego Bay

* * 5 4

Pumping like madmen all the way

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BARRETT'S PRIVATEERS page 2

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On the ninety-sixth day we sailed a-gain

* 4 1 4 (*)

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

1 5 1 *

When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight

* * 5 1

With our cracked four-pounders, we made to fight

1 * 5 1

The Yankee lay low down with gold

* 4 1 5 (*)

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

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She was broad and fat and loose in stays

* * 5 1

But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days

1 * 5 1

Then at length we stood two cables a-way

* 4 1 5 (*)

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

1 5 1 *

Our cracked four-pounders made an awful din

* * 5 1

But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in

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The Antelope shook and pitched on her side

* 4 1 5 (*)

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

1 5 1 *

Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs

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And the main-truck carried off both me legs

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So here I lay in my twenty-third year

* 4 1 5 (*)

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

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It's been six years since we sailed a-way

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And I just made Halifax yester-day

NOTES:

- Stan Rogers sings acapella

- Parody: Garnet's Homemade Beer (see under Ian Robb)

SYMBOLS:

- Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord

- Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure

- Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure

CHORDS (Number System):

- Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

- Key of C: C D E F G A B

- Detailed description: /pub/guitar/other_stuff/numbering_system.txt

- Submitted by: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca)

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