Wave Over Wave
- Great Big Sea
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Intro
| Em A | 4x
Verse
G D G D
Oh, me name's Abel Rogers, a shareman am I,
G D Em Asus4
on a three-masted schooner from Twillingate Isle.
G D G D
I've been the world over, north, south, east, and west,
G D Em Asus4
but the middle of nowhere's where I likes it best.
Chorus
G D G D
where it's wave over wave, sea over bow,
G D Em A
I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow.
G D G D
There's no other life for a sailor like me,
G D Em A
than to sail the salt sea, boys, to sail the sea,
G Asus4 D
there's no other life but to sail the salt sea.
|D G D | G D G A D |
Verse
G D G D
well,I leave my wife lonely ten months of the year,
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for she built me a home and raised my children dear.
G D G D
she never come out to bid farewell to me,
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or ken why a sailor must sail the salt sea.
Chorus
G D G D
where it's wave over wave, sea over bow,
G D Em A
I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow.
G D G D
There's no other life for a sailor like me,
G D Em A
than to sail the salt sea, boys, to sail the sea,
G Asus4 D
there's no other life but to sail the salt sea.
Verse
G D G D
Ah the work it is hard and the hours are long,
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but my spirit is willing, my back it is strong.
G D G D
and when the work's over the whiskey will pour,
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We'll dance with the girls upon some foreign shore.
| Em A | 4x
Verse
G D G D
I've sailed the world over,four decades or more,
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and oft times I wonder what I do it for.
G D G D
I don't know the answer it's pleasure and pain,
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but with life to live over I'd do it again.
Chorus
G D G D
where it's wave over wave, sea over bow,
G D Em A
I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow.
G D G D
There's no other life for a sailor like me,
G D Em A
than to sail the salt sea, boys, to sail the sea,
G Asus4 D
there's no other life but to sail the salt sea.
G D G D
where it's wave over wave, sea over bow,
G D Em A
I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow.
G D G D
There's no other life for a sailor like me,
G D Em A
than to sail the salt sea, boys, to sail the sea,
G Asus4 D
there's no other life but to sail the salt sea.
| D G D | D G A D |
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