Rogers Stan

Rogers Stan - The Jeannie C guitar tab

The Jeannie C. - Words & Music by Stan Rogers (March 1978)

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DADGBE tuning (chords at end of file)

Bmsus A G D

Come all ye lads, draw near by me

Bm A G D

That I be not forsaken

Bm A A/G G

This day was lost the Jeannie C.

A G

And my living has been taken

A D Bmsus / G / A / Bm7 / A7 / A

I'll go to sea no more

We set out this day in the bright sunrise

The same as any other

My son and I and old John Price

In the boat named for my mother

I'll go to sea no more

Now it's well you know what the fishing has been

It's been scarce and hard and cruel

But this day, by God, we sure caught cod,

And we sang and we laughed like fools

I'll go to sea no more

I'll never know what it was we struck

But strike we did like thunder

John Price gave a cry and pitched overside

Now it's forever he's gone under

I'll go to sea no more

A leak we've sprung, let there be no delay

If the Jeannie C. we're saving

John Price is drown'd and slip'd away

So I'll patch the hole while you're bailing

I'll go to sea no more

But no leak I found from bow to hold

No rock it was that got her

But what I found made my heart stop cold

For every seam poured water

I'll go to sea no more

My God, I cried, as she went down

That boat was like no other

My father built her when I was nine

And named her for my mother

I'll go to sea no more

And sure I could have another made

In the boat shop down in Dover

But I would not love the keel they laid

Like the one the waves roll over

I'll go to sea no more

So come all ye lads, draw near by me

So I be not forsaken

This day was lost the Jeannie C.

And my whole life has been taken

I'll go to sea no more.

Chords:

A x02220

A/G 552220

A7 x05050

Bm x24432

Bmsus x24030

Bm7/A x04030

D xx0232

G 440003

-Chris

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Chris Butler aka cbutler@bnr.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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