Our Henrietta Sailors Have Come Back Home

G D G Em Oh a mer-ry day, the Bar-a-cout-ta made port! Em G Am C Our Hen-ri-et-ta sail-ors have come back home! Em Am Em Am When they left A-quil-a In the West-ern In-dies Em Am D Was a storm a-brew-ing, but no one knew G D So they sailed, with full sheets fly-ing, G D For two days that schoon-er flew! Em Am Em Am Then the wind it turn-ed to a bad Nor-west-er Em Am D How it whipp’d a-round them now as it blew G C D Cap-tain Ham-met said “Reef the fore sails” Em D but once reef’d the bolt rope blew. Em Am Em Am Now the Hen-ri-et-a ran be-fore a GALE wind Em Am D With no sail to steer by, to keep her true G C D Capt-ain Ham-met said “Rig a storm sail” G D but in minutes that went too. G D G Em Oh a mer-ry day, the Bar-a-cout-ta made port! Em G Am C Our Hen-ri-et-ta sail-ors have come back home! Em Am Em Am Now the Hen-ri-et-ta was in dire trou-ble Em Am D bal-ance reef’d her main sail, but then it blew G D And the Sea washed Hen-ri-et-ta G D Clear’d the deck of all she knew Em Am Em Am How our brave boys tri-ed to just keep her point-ed Em Am D Then the rud-der gave way, to their des-pair G C D Cap-tain Ham-met said “Chop the bulkhead” Em D throw the car-go to the sea Em Am Em Am Now the Hen-ri-et-a was so close to sink-ing Em Am D But our brave young sail-ors kept to their work G C D Capt-ain Ham-met said “Light a fire” G D “Sig-nal ships if they be true” G D G Em Oh a mer-ry day, the Bar-a-cout-ta made port! Em G Am C Our Hen-ri-et-ta sail-ors have come back home!  Em Am Em Am Cap-tain Hub-bard sail-ing the good Bar-ra-cout-ta Em Am D caught sight of a sig-nal on his port bow G D His ship trained in at sea res-cue G D and they’d earned some medals too Em Am Em Am Who will board that ves-sel in this bit-ter st-orm? Em Am D Cap-tain Hub-bard ask-ed his no-ble crew G C D “Let me go!” said ever-ry man there; Em D he chose four to make the trip Em Am Em Am Now poor Hen-ri-et-a tak-ing wa-ter free-ly Em Am D Won-der-ed if they’d l-ive ‘til far day-break G C D But just then, the Hea-vens op-ened, G D And the moon shown bright as day G D G Em Oh a mer-ry day, the Bar-a-cout-ta made port! Em G Am C Our Hen-ri-et-ta sail-ors have come back home!   Em Am Em Am It took them two ho-urs with that wind a blow-ing Em Am D to save all our se-ven, our schoon-er’s crew G D as they sail-ed in Bar-a-cout-ta G D ‘Et-ta slipped be-neath the waves. Em Am Em Am Oh our po-or schoon-er, Po-or Hein-ri-et-a Em Am D But she served her cap-tain and saved her crew G C D Cap-tain Ham-met said “let’s go home, boys!” Em D “We did all a man can do!” Em Am Em Am Now poor Hen-ri-et-a lies down on the bot-tom Em Am D But our sail-ors are home, ‘til their next ship G C D So let’s hoist mugs to Hen-ri-et-ta G D And to Bar-a-cout-a too! G D G Em Oh a mer-ry day, the Bar-a-cout-ta made port! Em G Am C Our Hen-ri-et-ta sail-ors have come back home!