Cifras
The Final Voyage Of The Wailer's Essex

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Introdução:

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I done my level best, to whomever's concerned
          C                              Em                            F                              G  
For children of wailer's, we all take a turn
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Now we lay in our oars boat, us six men at sea
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And travel for home with rations for three
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Two ounces fresh water and hardtack a day
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But we'll see Nantucket again
        C                              Em                            Am                              C  
Forty days and forty nights, we followed the wind
          C                              Em                            F                              G  
In the southern Pacific, many miles from land
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The first mate of Essex, and few crew with me
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Our captain George Pollard is lost at the sea
          Dm                      G                                            C                    Am  
And I look to the East and see nothing but blue
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So what can us starving men do?
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But sing, sing, we're on our way home
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Across the Pacific, and through the unknown
        C                                         E7                                                              Am  
With God as our shepherd then no harm shall pass
  F                                    G                              C  
We'll be in Nantucket at last
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But oh, how this skin of blistered leather pulls tight on our skulls
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As rations all dwindle away
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And oh, how our dreams every night, of our stomachs so full
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But awake to find water to last two more days
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Our spirits all broken, our minds are all crazed
          Dm                         G                 C                                         Em      Am  
And oh, how I'd kill for just one more good meal
             F                              G                              C  
But home's a little farther away
                C            G                 F                                         G  
But sing, sing, we're on our way home
          C            G                 F                                         G7  
Across the Pacific, and through the unknown
        C                                         E7                                                              Am  
With God as our shepherd then no harm shall pass
  F                                    G                              C  
We'll be in Nantucket at last
                        C7                              F                                                                    F7  
But oh, when I look at my crewman, I see them looking back at me
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Humanity gone from their eyes
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Once we were men of our god, and brothers at sea
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Those times weren't so long ago, but how quick they pass
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Was once death a stranger, now approaching us fast
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But we are Nantucket, the proud and the strong
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For Nantucket, we must travel on
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But oh, how these hunger pangs drive all the thoughts in my brain
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And body dries up in the sun
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Oh, cause it's meat and fresh water that the six of us crave
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So six bits of paper are tossed in the cap
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And six men reach in and each pull out a scrap
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And one man of six, with the unlucky draw
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Is one man to help feed us all