Chinatown Bumboat

Bm Em F# Bm I was strolling down Sand Street one fine summer night Bm Em F# Bm And I spied a fair damsel as she hove in sight. Bm D A7 Bm I ran up my number, to which she replied, Bm Em F# Bm "I'm a Chinatown bumboat going out with the tide, Bm Em F# Bm "I'm a Chinatown bumboat going out with the tide." Bm Em F# Bm I passed her a hawser and took her in tow, Bm Em F# Bm We crossed down the way like a couple should go. Bm D A7 Bm We turned in an alley not too clean or neat, Bm Em F# Bm And we dropped out mudhooks at the end of the street. Bm Em F# Bm And we dropped out mudhooks at the end of the street. Bm Em F# Bm She then led me up to a third-story floor, Bm Em F# Bm And in her fine stateroom I soon laid her o'er. Bm D A7 Bm She cleaned up her courses and her red flag downhaul, Bm Em F# Bm Laid her lily-white hand on me reeftackle-fall. Bm Em F# Bm Laid her lily-white hand on me reeftackle-fall. Bm Em F# Bm I gazed in her sternsheets, saw plenty of room, Bm Em F# Bm And into her hullpipe I shoved my jibboom. Bm D A7 Bm With her fenders o'erhanging like a bent scupper's lip, Bm Em F# Bm Pretty Polly's a pirate who scuttled my ship. Bm Em F# Bm Pretty Polly's a pirate who scuttled my ship. Bm Em F# Bm She rolled and she pitched like a ship in a storm, Bm Em F# Bm And cried out, "Oh, sailor, you're doing me harm! Bm D A7 Bm You're in the wrong port!" she cried out in alarm. Bm Em F# Bm Well, the wrong port be damned, any port in a storm. Bm Em F# Bm Well, the wrong port be damned, any port in a storm. Bm Em F# Bm She burnt down me rigging clean down to the hull, Bm Em F# Bm And back to the sickbay me punt I did scull. Bm D A7 Bm With me foregaps all bent and me mainmast unstrung, Bm Em F# Bm The doctor said, "Sailor, yer jibboom is sprung." Bm Em F# Bm The doctor said, "Sailor, yer jibboom is sprung." Bm Em F# Bm Now I'm lying in sickbay, me stern to the wall, Bm Em F# Bm The Chinatown bumboat the cause of it all. Bm D A7 Bm It's ashes to ashes and dust unto dust, Bm Em F# Bm Tell me, where is the woman a sailor can trust? Bm Em F# Bm Tell me, where is the woman a sailor can trust?