Drunken Boat Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am]
[E][Am]
[C][Dm][Am]

[Verse 1]
The [Am]wind was whipping
shingle through the win[E]dows in the town
A hail of stones across the roof,
[Am]the slates came raining down
A blade of light upon the spit came
[Dm]sweeping through the roar
With me head [E]in side a barrel and

[Verse 2]
me leg screwed in the floor
[Am]Mother pack me bags because
I'm [E]off to foreign parts
Don't ask me where I'm going 'cause
I'm [Dm]sure [Am]it's [Dm]off [Am]the charts
I'll pin your likeness on the wall
right [Dm]by my sleeping head
I'll [E]send you cards and letters so
you'll know that I'm not dead

[Verse 3]
By [Am]this time in a week I should
be [E]far away from home
Trailing fingers through the phospor or
[Am]asleep in flowers of foam
From Macao to Acapulco from
[Dm]Havana to Seville
We'll see [E]monoliths and bridges
and the Christ up on the hill

[Verse 4]
An [E]aria [Am]with the Russians at
the pi[E]ano in the bar
With ice floes through the window
we raised [Am]glasses to the Czar
We squared off on a dockside with
a [Dm]couple a hundred Finns
We [E]dallied in the 'dilly and we
soaked ourselves in gin

[Verse 5]
Now the [Dm]only deck that I'd [Am]want to walk
Are the [E]stalks of corn
[Am]beneath my feet
And the [Dm]only sea I [Am]want to sail
[E]Is the darkned pond in
the scented dusk
Where a kid grow's full of sadness
Let's all go drifting out into the even
[Am]ing [E]sun[Am]

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 6]
We [Am]sailed through constellations
and were [E]rutted by the storm
I crumpled under cudgel blows
and [Am]finally came ashore
I spent the next two years or more
just star[Dm]ing at the wall
We [E]went to sea to see the world
and what d'you think we saw?

[Verse 7]
If [Am]we turned the table upside down
and sailed [E]around the bed
Clamped knives between our teeth and
tied [Am]bandannas round our heads
With the wainscot our horizon and
[Dm]the ceiling as the sky
You'd [E]not expect that anyone
would go and fuckin' die

[Verse 8]
Now the [Dm]only deck that I'd [Am]want to walk
Are the [E]stalks of corn
[Am]beneath my feet
And the [Dm]only sea I [Am]want to sail
Is [E]the darkned pond in the scented dusk
Where a kid grow's full of sadness
Let us all go drifting out into
[Am]the evening [E]sun[Am]

[Verse 9]
[Am]
At nights we passed the bottle round
and [E]drank to our lost friends
We lay alone upon our bunks
[Am]and prayed that this would end
A wall of moving shadows with
[Dm]rows of swinging keys
We [E]dreamed that whole Leviathans
lay rotting in the weeds

[Verse 10]
There's [Am]a sound that comes from miles
away if you [E]lean your head to hear
A ship's bell rings on board a wreck
when the [Am]air is still and clear
And up above that means another
an[Dm]gel's got his wings
But [E]all below it signifies is
a ship's gone in the drink

[Verse 11]
Now the [Dm]only deck that I'd [Am]want to walk
Are the [E]stalks of corn
[Am]beneath my feet
And the [Dm]only sea I [Am]want to sail
Is [E]the darkned pond in
the scented dusk
Where a kid grow's full of sadness
Let us all go drifting out into [Am]the evening [E]sun[Am]

[Outro 1]
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[C][Dm][Dm]
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