Pirate Song

INTRO- Ab5   B5   F#5   C#
       Ab5   B5   F#    C#
       Ab5   B5   F#5   C#
       Ab5   B5   B5    F#   Ab5

       Ab5                   B5
Though you see me now a mere ghost 
of a man
  F#5                     C#
I once had the heart of a lion
   Ab5                    B5
Commanded my ship between many a 
shore
    F#5               C#
The ol’ Jolly Roger a-flyin

Ab5                         B5
Mine was a name that struck fear 
into men
      F#5                 C#
And regret into plenty of lasses
Ab5                   B5
Oh how I wish I could take back 
those days
     F#5                 
As I stare at these empty 
      C#
beer-glasses

      B                            
And I think of the times past when 
Ebm
I had it all
  C#                               
I toyed with men’s wives and their 
Ab5
daughters
    B                     Ebm
And in my pursuit of this ill-gotten
 wealth
  C#                         
I stabbed and I slashed and I 
 Eb
slaughtered

        Ab5       E5
And for what? The men that I’ve 
fought
    F#5                      C#
Are matched by the number of women 
I’ve bought
        Ab5        E5
And for what? I’ve killed and I’ve 
shot
    F#5                       
And reddened the cold tears of 
 F#
children with blood
    Ab5        F#          B5    
And if I could go back and make 
   C#5
my amends
    B5             F#5      Ab5
I’d make all those mistakes again
         B5         F#           
I’d kill every last one of those 
Eb           Ab5
bastards, my friend

D PEAT INTRO- Ab5   B5   F#5   C#
              Ab5   B5   F#    C#
              Ab5   B5   F#5   C#
              Ab5   B5   B5    

F#   Ab5

   Ab5                          B5
My ship was the last sight that many
 would see
      F#5                      
As we narrowed the gap with our 
 C#
quarry
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    Ab5                     
The sound of the cannons and 
 B5
splintering wood
      F#5                   C#
Would herald our paths into glory


Ab5                        
We seized all the bounty and 
  B5
scuppered the ship
    F#5                       
Our hearts hadn’t time for the 
 C#
wounded
Ab5                     B5
I took my share and the crew got the
 rest
    F#5                  C#
And on into port we then bounded

     B                       Ebm
Life has many pleasures, and we had 
our fill
   C#                      Ab5
Of food and of wenches and beer
          B                        
When we’d tired of the port or had 
Ebm
drunken it dry
    C#                          Eb
The time to set sail would come near

        Ab5      E5
And for what? We heeded no law
     F#5                 C#
Made other men suffer so we could 
have more
        Ab5      E5
And for what? We lived every day
         F#5                   
With the noose of the hangman a 
 F#
hair’s breadth away
    Ab5        F#          B5    
And if I could go back and make 
   C#
my amends
    B5             F#        Ab5
I’d make all those mistakes again
         B5         F#           
I’d kill every last one of those 
Eb           Ab5
bastards, my friend

G  OS:
      ACCORDIAN PART (in single 
notes NOT CHORDS)
      (RH= right hand  LH= left hand
  __= hold note)

         RH- C# Eb E  Eb C# Eb C# B
         LH- C# C# C# C# C# C# C# C#

         RH- C# Eb E  Eb E  F# E  Eb
         LH- C# C# C# C# C# B  B  B

         RH- C# Eb E  Eb C# Eb C# B
         LH- C# C# C# C# C# C# C# C#

         RH- E  B  E  Ab F# E   F# 
C# F# Bb Ab F#
         LH- E_______________   
F#_______________

      MAIN G  O- GTR/KYBD/GTR/KYBD
         (CHORDS)

         Ab5   B5   F#5  C#
         Ab5   B5   F#5  C#
         Ab5   B5   F#5  C#
         Ab5   B5   F#5  C#

      D PEAT ACCORDIAN PART

   Ab5                       B5
Oh I have seen wonders you’d never 
have dreamed
    F#5                   C#
And taken my fair share I must say
Ab5                   B5
Holds full of booty I happily seized
     F#5                       C#
From crews who would not see a new 
day

        Ab5                 B5
Spanish gold came and went, gem 
stones got sold
      F#5                     C#
But I knew more lay on the horizon
        Ab5                       
Yet the beer was too good and the 
B5
gals were too sweet
    F#5                    C#
And now in my old age it’s gone

      B                            
These memories were bought with the
 Ebm
 lives of good men
  C#                        Ab5
A price that I paid without scruple
   B                      Ebm
So many souls suffered so I could 
get drunk
    C#                      Eb
And swagger from brothel to brothel

        Ab5        E5
And for what? It’s been many years
        F#5                      
Yet the screams of the vanquished 
       C#
still ring in my ears
        Ab5        E5
And for what? I’ve blood on my hands
  F#5                      F#
I wait for my place in the halls of 
the damned
    Ab5        F#          B5    
And if I could go back and make 
   C#
my amends
    B5             F#       Ab5
I’d make all those mistakes again
         B5         F#           
I’d kill every last one of those 
Eb          Ab5
bastards my friend