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Sea Shanty Chords Tab

by Quasi


 It's only very rough, but as there seems to be not one other tab on the internet by this 
band I thought I'd rectify that.
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//Intro = (
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 Repair the hull,     replace the sails.
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 The monkey wrestles with the ghost
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 And a thousand pleasures form a thin veneer
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 Over lack of hope.
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 The captain was rightly murdered by the crew
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 But now they don't know what to do -
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 Drifting on the murky Sargasso       of the everyday.

//Then basically the same again

Work and slave and skimp and save
And you can buy yourself a bigger cave
And a thousand little cruelties we agree to pretend to ignore.
The ghost has got the monkey by the tail
And all they both can do is wail.
And you and I go drifting by the abandoned vessels of the everyday.