Tonart: G major
Intro 1
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Eb
Gm
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Verse 1
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way to Shanghai through the vast China Sea
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Gm
The topsails are full but we're
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light on the breeze
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Eb
With a good clip down channel,
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and the passage looks calm
Cm
And there's naught like a
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F
Bb
clipper just rolling along
Verse 2
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Gm
Rolling along, boys, rolling along
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Bb
And there's naught like a clipper
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Bb
just rolling along
Verse 3
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'Tween the skeleton beach and
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the Cape of Good Hope
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Gm
There's sandbars and reefs, boys,
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F
and they'll give you a grope
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Eb
To you skippers so daring,
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don't act too cock- sure
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Gm
Or your ship may be wrecked
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Bb
and you'll sail her no more
Verse 4
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F
Gm
more, boys, sail her no more
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Bb
Or your ship may be wrecked
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Bb
and you'll sail her no more
Verse 5
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Eb
There's pirates in waiting
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F
and storms to be tamed
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Gm
The shoals all bear names of the
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boats that they claimed
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But under our feet the warm
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waters that roll
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Gm
Are blue as cut sapphires
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Bb
and shining like gold
Verse 6
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F
Gm
Shining like gold, boys, shining like gold
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F
As blue as cut sap phires and shining
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Verse 7
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Eb
Now our cargo is loaded and we
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catch the dawn tide
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Gm
I can bare see the vessels
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I race for the prize
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In the docks back in London,
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they wait for to see
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Gm
The sails of our clipper
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Bb
and the first stalk of tea
Verse 8
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F
Gm
tea, boys, first stalk of tea
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Bb
For the sails of our clipper and the
F
Bb
first stalk of tea
Verse 9
Bb
Eb
Bb
F
Catching the westerly's haul every hand
Cm
Pile on the topsail,
Gm
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F
give all she can stand
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Eb
For heart then for home,
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F
I hear calling me on
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Gm
And there's naught like a clipper,
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Bb
just rolling along
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Rolling
Verse 10
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Gm
along, boys, rolling along
Eb
And there's naught like a
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F
Gm
clipper just rolling along
Eb
Rolling
Verse 11
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Gm
along, boys, rolling along
Eb
And there's naught like a
Bb
F
clipper just rolling along
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TunerE A D G B E
Akkorde & SongtexteF Eb Gm Bb Cm
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