Whaling

D D Smash

C
F
F/A
3
G

Continues after the ad

Key:


From: KEANJ@* (John Kean)

~~~~~~~
Transcribed by John Kean (*)
based on an earlier version by Sandy
 Davidson (*).

4/4 time.


INTRO:

Guitar plays:
   C                        G     
   ,     ,     ,     ,      ,     
   F/A             C
,     ,     ,      ,     ,     ,    
 ,
||------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
||-------1--3--3s5s3-1----|-------0-h1-----1-------|-------1--3--3s5s5-1----|
||----0-----------------0-|----0--------0----------|----0-----------------0-|
||------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
||-3----------------------|----------0--------0--2-|-3----------------------|
||------------------------|-3----------------------|------------------------|


             G           F/A      
             ,       ,       ,    
               C
   ,           ,     ,     ,     ,
          
||---------------------3---3h5p3p0---|-3-----------------------|
   Violin 
||-----------------------------------|----5--3-----3--5--------|
(arranged 
||-----------------------------------|----------5--------5--4--|
      for 
||-----------------------------------|-------------------------|
  another 
||-----------------------------------|-------------------------|
  guitar) 
||-----------------------------------|-------------------------|
           :                        
           :                        
 :
           :                        
           :                        
 :

           |----------------------

 |-------------|--------------------

 |-----| 

    First  
|---------0--h1-------1-------------|-------1--3--3s5s3-1-----|
   guitar  
|-----0-----------0-----------------|----0-----------------0--|
continues  
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------|

           |-------------0--------
           |-3--------------------

 |--0------2---|-3------------------
 |-------------|--------------------

 |-----| 
 |-----| 


  G        F/A             C     
  ,     ,     ,     ,      ,     
                    G        F/A
,     ,     ,       ,     ,     ,   
  ,

|------------------------|--------
|------------------------|--------
|-------5-----------4----|--------
|----------7-------------|-5------
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:                        :        

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|----0--------0----------|----0--
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|-3----------------------|-------

||------------------|------------------------|| 
||1---3--3s5s3-1----|-------0-h1-----1-------|| 
||----------------0-|----0--------0----------|| 
||------------------|------------------------|| 
||------------------|----------0--------0--2-|| 
||------------------|-3----------------------|| 

                                    
                                   
Sing


VERSE 1:
    C                        G    
    ,     ,     ,     ,      ,    
    F/A             C
 ,     ,     ,      ,     ,     ,   
  ,
||--------0-----------0----|-------3----------------|-------0-----------0----|
||--------1-----------1----|-------0--------1-------|-------1-----------1----|
||*-------0-----------0----|-------0----------------|-------0-----------0----|
||*------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
Continues after the ad
||--3--------------3-------|----------0--------0--2-|-3--------------3-------|
||-------------------------|-3----------------------|------------------------|
   "Bravo bravo!"                   
         You're a brave brave man
    ship can't handle               
           The    heavy        seas


  G        F/A             C     
  ,     ,     ,     ,      ,     
                   G        F/A
,     ,     ,      ,     ,     ,    
 ,

|-------3----------------|-------
|-------0--------1-------|-------
|-------0----------------|-------
|------------------------|-------
|----------0--------0--2-|-3-----
|-3----------------------|-------

||0-----------0----|-------3--------
||1-----------1----|-------0--------
||0-----------0----|-------0--------
||-----------------|----------------
||---------3-------|----------0-----
||-----------------|-3--------------

---------| 
1--------| 
---------| 
---------| 
---0--2--| 
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                    I know   it's 
just bravado                        
Never
                    Your   spirit 
will get you through                
   No


  C                        G      
  ,     ,     ,     ,      ,     ,
  F/A
     ,     ,

|-------0-----------0----|-------
|-------1-----------1----|-------
|-------0-----------0----|-------
|------------------------|-------
|-3--------------3-------|-------
|------------------------|-3-----

||3-----------------|| 
||0--------1--------|| 
||0----------------*|| 
||-----------------*|| 
||---0--------0--2--|| 
||------------------|| 

  sink 'cause you swim              
      And when your
  down on bended knees


VERSE 2:
          C                   G   
You sing "Save me, save me"
  F

        C            G    F
Save me from myself
        C                          
I'm the first to get trigger happy
 G    F

             C                     
The first to think of my own health
  G     F



CHORUS:
   F
   ,     ,     ,     ,       ,     ,
     ,     ,
||-------------------------|-------------------------|
||-------------------------|-------------------------|
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||-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--|
||-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--|
||-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--|
'Cause I'm,          oh      I'm... 
        Cause I'm

C
     F
I'll never get used to the sea
        C
But I'm whaling, manning my harpoon
F
Not where I wanted to be
        C
But I'm whaling, I feel like Jonah
F
Never meaning you no harm
        C
But I'm whaling, next port of call
F
Back in my sweet babys arms

     G (single strum)  G (single 
strum)  G (single strum)
In a room,             close,       
     savouring our love  while we 
got

                            ,       
,       ,       ,
                         
||---------------------3---3h5p3p0-|
                  Violin 
||---------------------------------|
               (arranged 
||---------------------------------|
             for another 
||---------------------------------|
                 guitar) 
||---------------------------------|
                         
||---------------------------------|
  F                       :         
  ,     ,     ,     ,     :         
                        :
                        :

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|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--|-3---3-
|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--|-3---3-
|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--|-1---1-

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||--3---3---3---3---3---3---| 
||--3---3---3---3---3---3---| 
||--1---1---1---1---1---1---| 

  Rest  and   recrea-               
                  tion


  C                         G     
  ,     ,     ,     ,       ,     
   F/A             C
,     ,     ,      ,     ,     ,    
 ,

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  G           F/A                 
  ,       ,       ,       ,       
    C
    ,     ,     ,     ,

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:                                 

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||--|-------------------------| 


  G        F/A             C     
  ,     ,     ,     ,      ,     
                    G        F/A
,     ,     ,       ,     ,     ,   
  ,

|------------------------|--------
|------------------------|--------
|-------5-----------4----|--------
|----------7-------------|-5------
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:                        :        

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        :  


|------------------------|-------
|-------0-h1-----1-------|-------
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|----------0--------0--2-|-3-----
|-3----------------------|-------

||------------------|------------------------|| 
||1---3--3s5s3-1----|-------0-h1-----1-------|| 
||----------------0-|----0--------0----------|| 
||------------------|------------------------|| 
||------------------|----------0--------0--2-|| 
||------------------|-3----------------------|| 


VERSE 3:
Ooh you sing "Bravo bravo"
Save me from myself
I'm the first to get trigger happy
The first to think of my own health


CHORUS + FADE


   \\\\   John Kean
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