Shipboard Romance

    C                      F      
A Shipboard Romance from Capetown 
     C
to Cairo,
  Am         G           F       G
Born on the sea where memories stay,
           Am            F       
And though he was from England, 
C        F
she from Germany,
C        Csus4 C   Csus2 C  
War was still far away;
Csus4 C Csus2 C




[Verse 2]
      C                         F 
They hit a bad storm off the coast
        C
 of Mombasa,
  Am            G           
Battered and bruised, the ship 
F           G
carried on,
         Am           F           
When he held her and told her that
  C            F
 all will be well,
     C       Csus4 C  Csus2 C   
She knew that he was The One;
Csus4 C Csus2 C




[Chorus]
           Am          F       G 
She said "You are my hero and you
          C
 are my love,
 F          C             G
You came to me from the heavens 
above,
 Am         F              G     
All of my life I´ve been waiting 
     C
for you,
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    F         C       G      
I know that this is more than a 
                  C    Csus4 C 
Shipboard Romance!"
Csus2 C




[Verse 3]
    C                       F     
He gave her a gift of a beautiful 
    C
diamond,
     Am       G        F     
"A memory of me when you´re far 
     G
away,"
        Am         F         C   
At the end of the journey, tears 
    F
goodbye,
       C          Csus4   C  
Never knowing if they´d meet 
Csus2 C    Csus4 C Csus2 C
again;



[Bridge]
     Ab                            
But Fate has a way of changing our 
        Eb
lives forever,
         Fm                        
When he saw in the paper a valuable
              G
 diamond for sale;
       Ab
So he went to the place in Holland,
                  Eb  Bb   Cm    
And then when he saw her face, 
   Fm
she ran to his arms,
                         G      
And all the years just fell away 
           C
with her tears;

[Solo]
Am   F   G   C   F   C   G

[Verse 4]
     C                      F     
A Shipboard Romance from Capetown 
     C
to Cairo,
 Am           G            F     
Born on the ocean where memories 
   G
stay,
          Am      F          C   
And the elderly couple were so 
        F
much in love,
C       Csus4 C Csus2 C    
Hand in hand every day;
Csus4 C Csus2 C




[Chorus]

And she said,
  Am       F        G        C
"He is my hero and he is my love,
 F         C             G
He came to me from the Heavens 
above,
 Am        F               G     
All of my life I´ve been waiting 
     C
for him,
    F         C        G         
I knew that this was more than a 
             Am   F   G   C
Shipboard Romance
   F          C        G         
I knew that this was more than a 
             C     Csus4 C Csus2 C
Shipboard Romance!"