White Squall

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Now it's just my luck to have the 
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watch, with nothing left to do
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But watch the deadly waters glide,
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 as we roll north to the Soo
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And wonder when they'll turn 
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again, and pitch us to the rail
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And whirl off one more youngster 
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in the gale


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The kid was so damned eager, it 
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was all so big and new
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You never had to tell him twice, 
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or find him work to do
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And evenings on the mess deck, he 
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was always first to sing
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And show us pictures of the girl 
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he'd wed in spring


CHORUS ONE (after verses 1, 3,):
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But I told that kid a hundred 
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times, don't take the lakes for 
granted
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They'll go from calm to a hundred 
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knots, so fast they seem en-chanted
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But to-night some red-eyed Wiarton
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 girl, lies staring at the wall
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And her lover's gone in-to a white 
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squall

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Now it's a thing that us 
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old-timers know, in a sultry summer 
calm
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There comes a blow from nowhere, 
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and it goes off like a bomb
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And a sixteen thousand tonner can 
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be thrown upon her beam
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While the gale takes all before it
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 with a scream

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The kid was on the hatches, lying 
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staring at the sky
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From where I stood, I swear I 
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could, see tears fall from his eye
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So I hadn't the heart to tell him,
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 that he should be on a line
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Even on a night so warm and fine
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WHITE SQUALL     PAGE TWO

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When it struck, he sat up with a 
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start, I roared to him: Get down
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But for all that he could hear, I 
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might as well not made a sound

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So I clung there to the 
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stanchions and I felt my face grow 
pale
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As he crawled hand-over-hand along
     C     C
 the rail


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Now I could feel her heeling over 
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with the fury of the blow
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And I watched the rail go under 
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then, so terrible and slow
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Then like some great dog she shook
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 herself and roared upright a-gain
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While overside I heard him call my 
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name


        C               C      
So it's just my luck to have the 
              Am              F
watch, with nothing left to do
    E                E            
But watch the deadly waters glide,
       Dm                G
 as we roll north to the Soo
    C                   C         
And wonder when they'll turn 
      Am              F
again, and pitch us to the rail
    Em                 G          
And whirl off one more youngster 
      C        C
in the gale


CHORUS TWO:
      G                 G/B   
And I tell these kids a hundred 
               F               
times, don't take the lakes for 
   E
granted
        Am                E       
They'll go from calm to a hundred 
          Dm                G
knots, so fast they seem en-chanted
       C                   C      
But to-night some red-eyed Wiarton
            Am             F
 girl, lies staring at the wall
        E              G          
And her lover's gone into a white 
C         C
squall