Bm     A     G            D
Come all ye lads, draw near to me,
     Bm   A      G   D
that I be not forsaken
     Bm      A                G
This day was lost the Jeannie C.
       A               G
and my living has been taken
     A            D
I'll go to sea no more


[Verse 2]
       Bm       A          G         D
We set out this day in the bright sunrise,
    Bm      A   G   D
the same as any other
   Bm      A              G
My son and I and old John Price
       A                 G
in the boat named for my mother
     A            D
I'll go to sea no more


[Verse 3]
         Bm       A             G           D
Now it's well you know what the fishing has been,
          Bm         A        G  D
it's been scarce and hard and cruel
         Bm      A                   G
But this day, by God, we sure caught cod,
       A                        G
and we sang and we laughed like fools
     A            D
I'll go to sea no more


[Verse 4]
     Bm         A       G      D
I'll never know what it was we struck,
    Bm        A        G     D
but strike we did like thunder
     Bm           A                   G
John Price give a cry and pitched overside
         A                 G
Now it's forever he's gone under
     A            D
I'll go to sea no more


[Verse 5]
      Bm         A           G           D
Now a leak we've sprung, let there be no delay
       Bm      A        G    D
if the Jeannie C. we're saving
     Bm       A                  G
John Price is drown'd and slip'd away
        A                           G
So I'll patch the hole while you're bailing
     A            D
I'll go to sea no more


[Verse 6]
       Bm     A          G      D
But no leak I found from bow to hold
   Bm      A        G   D
No rock it was that got her
    Bm     A                        G
But what I found made me heart stop cold,
    A                 G
for every seam poured water
     A            D
I'll go to sea no more


[Verse 7]
   Bm     A        G        D
My God, I cried as she went down
     Bm       A       G   D
That boat was like no other
   Bm     A                    G
My father built her when I was nine,
    A                G
and named her for my mother
     A            D
I'll go to sea no more


[Verse 8]
    Bm           A     G       D
And sure I could have another made
       Bm        A       G   D
in the boat shop down in Dover
      Bm        A                  G
But I would not love the keel they laid
         A                  G
like the one the waves roll over
     A            D
I'll go to sea no more


[Verse 9]
        Bm     A     G            D
So come all ye lads, draw near to me,
     Bm   A      G   D
that I be not forsaken
     Bm      A                G
This day was lost the Jeannie C.
       A                   G
and my whole life has been taken
     A            D
I'll go to sea no more