Intro: (D) (C) (D)
   (G)
Oh Gideon lived across the bay,
(C)          (G)
He's getting older now
(C)         (G)
His boat is big and bold
       (Am)        (D)
She has a stalward bow
    (G)
But my father's boat was second hand
(C)         (G)
One someone used before
(C)       (G)
And after every fishing trip
       (Am)      (D)
My father always swore
     (G)
That someday he would save enough
(C)      (G)
To go to St. John's town
(C)        (G)
And buy himself a big new boat
  (C)       (D)    (G)
A boat like Gideon Brown
  (C)       (D)    (G)
A Boat Like Gideon Brown