The Navys In Dock

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      Artist - Harvey Andrews
                                    
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     Song - The Navy's In Dock
                                    
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     Album - The Journey (1997)
                                    
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       Tabbed By - Ayreon77
                                    
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Tuning = Standard



VERSE 1
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 Em
"Watch for the sailor," say 
frightened old ladies
     Am
He's terrorizing the town
D
Handsome and sprightly though he's 
nearly ninety
     Em
He's never slowing down

The language he'll use when he's 
been on the booze
    Am                             
The stories he'd tell, well, they'd
                 D
 never choose to listen
But sometimes they glance at their 
             Em
husbands and sigh
       D                    C     
For an old salt sea-dog who winks 
    D              Em  C D Em  C D
and gives them the eye

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VERSE 2
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     Em
When we were in dock
     C               D            
We'd flock where the whores go in 
Em         C D
Rotterdam
   Em
In old navy blue
     C          D             Em 
We'd drink to a new love with 
         C D
every dram
        C                   D
And the blousy hostesses in short 
frilly dresses
    B7           Em
The young and old___
       Am                 D
They'd seen it before, in peace and 
in war
            Em
They'd been bought and sold

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CHORUS
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        Am
And the bars never close
             D                    
Till they've taken your money for 
G      D    Em
rotgut booze
         C
And your head hits the ground
        D                          
And the world's spinning round in a
 G        D   Em
 game you lose
        Am
And you cry out the pain
        D                    G    
But you shell out again for 
  D    Em
another glass
        F#7
And you pray that the morning will 
come
                     B             
And the ache in your head will pass
B7



Em  C D X4

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VERSE 3
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    Em
The ladies display
      C          D        
Every day in the windows of 
  Em         C D
Amsterdam
    Em
Whatever your dream
           C            D         
You're the cat with the cream when
     Em             C D
 the shutters slam
        C                          
And the guilt that you feel when 
  D
you find it's not real
      B7       Em
Is an old, old friend
        Am                       D
And you say, "Not again, well maybe,
 now and then"
        Em
Will it never end?

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CHORUS
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        Am
And the bars never close
             D                    
Till they've taken your money for 
G      D    Em
rotgut booze
         C
And your head hits the ground
        D                          
And the world's spinning round in a
 G        D   Em
 game you lose
        Am
And you cry out the pain
        D                    G    
But you shell out again for 
  D    Em
another glass
        F#7
And you pray that the morning will 
come
                     B             
And the ache in your head will pass
B7



Em  C D X4

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VERSE 4
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   Em                     C
My salt sailor days are a haze
          D            Em         
There's a red light to show the 
   C D
way
            Em
When you're battered and bruised
       C        D                 
You forget who abused you, that's 
Em         C D
yesterday
C                       D
Here on the land with a glass in my 
hand
     B7           Em
If a wish were mine
       Am                     D
I'd be back on a ship and I'd take 
me a trip
       Em
To the good old time

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CHORUS
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          Am
Where the bars never close
             D                    
Till they've taken your money for 
G      D    Em
rotgut booze
         C
And your head hits the ground
        D                          
And the world's spinning round in a
 G        D   Em
 game you lose
        Am
And you cry out the pain
        D                    G    
But you shell out again for 
  D    Em
another glass
        F#7
And you pray that the morning will 
come
                     B             
And the ache in your head will pass
B7

         Em
For when we were in dock
     C               D            
We'd flock where the whores go in 
Em
Rotterdam, in Rotterdam, in 
Rotterdam