White Squall

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[Verse]
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Now it's just my luck to have the 
             Em               C
watch, with nothing left to do
    Bm                             
But watch the deadly waters glide, 
      Em                 D
as we roll North to the Sault
    G                              
And wonder when they'll turn again,
     Em               C
 and pitch us to the rail
    Bm                 D          
And whirl off one more youngster 
      G
in the gale

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

[Chorus]
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But I told that kid a hundred 
         C                     
times, don't take the lakes for 
Bm
granted
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They go from calm to a hundred 
            Em               D
knots, so fast they seem enchanted
      G                          
But tonight some red-eyed Wiarton 
            Em              C
girl, lies staring at the wall
        Bm             D          
And her lover's gone into a white 
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squall

[Riff]
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[Verse]
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Now it's a thing that us old timers
            Em            C
 know, in a sultry summer calm
      Bm                           
There comes a blow from nowhere, 
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and it goes off like a bomb
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And a fifteen thousand tonner can 
  Em              C
be thrown upon her beam
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          Bm               D      
While the gale takes all before it
        G
 with a scream

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

[Chorus]
      D               D7          
But I told that kid a hundred 
         C                     
times, don't take the lakes for 
Bm
granted
     C                 Bm    
They go from calm to a hundred 
            Em               D
knots, so fast they seem enchanted
      G                          
But tonight some red-eyed Wiarton 
            Em              C
girl, lies staring at the wall
        Bm             D          
And her lover's gone into a white 
G
squall

[Riff]
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[Verse]
        G                       
When it struck, he sat up with a 
          Em                C
start, I roared to him get down
        Bm                       
But for all that he could hear, I 
          Em              D
could as well not made a sound
     G                             
So I clung there to the stanchions 
      Em              C
and I felt my face go pale
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As he crawled hand over hand along
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 the rail

[Verse]
            G                    
Now I could feel her heeling over 
          Em          C
with the fury of the blow
      Bm                       
And I watched the rail go under 
          Em           D
then, so terrible and slow
          G                        
Then like some great dog she shook 
            Em             C
herself and roared upright again
    Bm          D                 
Far over side I heard him call my 
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name

[Chorus]
      D               D7          
But I told that kid a hundred 
         C                     
times, don't take the lakes for 
Bm
granted
     C                 Bm    
They go from calm to a hundred 
            Em               D
knots, so fast they seem enchanted
      G                          
But tonight some red-eyed Wiarton 
            Em              C
girl, lies staring at the wall
        Bm             D          
And her lover's gone into a white 
G
squall


[Riff]
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[Verse]
        G                       
So it's just my luck to have the 
             Em               C
watch, with nothing left to do
    Bm                             
But watch the deadly waters glide, 
   Em                    D
as we roll North to the Sault
    G                              
And wonder when they'll turn again,
     Em               C
 and pitch us to the rail
    Bm                 D          
And whirl off one more youngster 
      G
in the gale


[Alt Chorus]
      D                 D7    
And I tell these kids a hundred 
               C               
times, don't take the lakes for 
   Bm
granted
     C                 Bm    
They go from calm to a hundred 
            Em             D
knots, so fast they seem enchanted
G                                 
But tonight some red-eyed Wiarton 
           Em             C
girl, lies staring at the wall
        Bm             D          
And her lover's gone into a white 
G
squall