White Squall

INTRO: C

VERSE:
          C                        
Well it's just my luck to have the 
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watch, with nothing left to do
       C                F         
But to watch the deadly waters 
         Am                 G
glide as we roll north to the 'Soo',
C                                  
Wonder when they'll turn again and 
Am       Em     F
pitch us to the rail
    C                  G          
Whirl off one more youngster in 
      F
the gale.

    C                              
The kid was so damned eager. It was
 Am     G       F
 all so big and new.
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Never had to tell him twice, or 
Am               G
find him work to do.
    C                              
And evenings on the mess deck he 
  Am     Em       F
was always first to sing,
        C               G         
Show us pictures of the girl he'd 
       C
wed in spring.


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CHORUS
      G                            
But I told that kid a hundred times
        F                  C
 "Don't take the Lakes for granted.
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They go from calm to a hundred 
      Am               G
knots so fast they seem enchanted."
      C                Dsus2      
But tonight a red-eyed Wiarton 
       Em             F
girl lies staring at the wall,
        Am             G          
And her lover's gone into a white 
F
squall.


       C                           
It's a thing that us oldtimers 
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know. In a sultry summer calm
      C                 F         
There comes a blow from nowhere, 
      Am              G
and it goes off like a bomb.
      C                            
And a fifteen thousand tonner can 
  Am       Em     F
be thrown upon her beam
          C                G      
While the gale takes all before it
        F
 with a scream.

    C                             
The kid was on the hatches, lying 
Am      G      F
staring at the sky.
     C               F            
From where I stood I swear I could
     Am                  G
 see tears fall from his eyes.
     C                           
So I hadn't the heart to tell him 
         Am        Em   F
that he should be on a line,
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Even on a night so warm and fine.


D PEAT CHORUS

            C                    
And I could feel her keeling over 
          Am   G      F
with the fury of the blow.
      C                   F   
And I watched the rail go under 
           Am           G
then, so terrible and slow.
           C                       
Then, like some great dog she shook
             Am       Em      F
 herself and roared upright again.
    C           G                 
Far overside, I heard him call my 
C
name.