Shipbuilding

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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         Is it          worth it?                   A new winter      coat and shoes for the

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    wife                      and a bicyle      on the boy's             I'ts just a rumor
                                                       birthday                that was 

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    spread around             by the women      children soon we'll   shipbuilding
            town                     and                      be

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[Verse 2]
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         Well  I         ask you                   The boy said       Dad, they're going
                                                                                  to take me  

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    task                          But I'll be   back by Christmas         I'ts just a rumor
                                                                                  that

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    spread around          Somebody said that   one got filled in .... for saying that
            town                      some-        

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    people get killed in..  the result of       their ship building ...


[Chorus]
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           With all the   will in the world          Di - ving for    dear life


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       When we could      ving for pearls
                be di-

[Solo]
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[Verse 3]
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      It's just a rumor   spread around town      A telegram for a    picture postcard
               that was 

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      Within weeks        opening the shipyard    and notifying the   next of kin
        they'll be re-

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    once again.


[Chorus]
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           It's all we're  skilled in                We   will be     shipbuilding  ....

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    ....   

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           With all the   will in the world          Di - ving for    dear life


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       When we could      ving for pearls.
                be di-

 
~    - vibrato
/    - slide up
\    - slide down
x    - dead note
( )  - ghost note