A Pirate Looks At Forty

[Verse 1]  
[G]  
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call  
[C]                                                      [G]  
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall  
               [Am7]    [Bm7]  [Am7]            [G]  
You've seen it all,        you've seen it all  

[Verse 2]  
[G]  
Watch the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam  
    [C]                                                      
And in your belly you hold the treasure that few have ever  
[G]  
seen  
             [Am7]      [Bm7]  [Am7]          [G]  
Most of them dreams,       most of them dreams  

[Verse 3]  
[G]  
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late  
    [C]                                                          
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder, I'm an  
                     [G]  
over forty victim of fate  
             [Am7]    [Bm7]   [Am7]        [G]  
Arriving too late,      arriving too late  

[Verse 4]  
[G]  
I've done a bit of smugglin' and I've run my share of grass  
  [C]                                                      [G]  
I made enough money to buy Miami but I pissed it away so fast  
               [Am7]    [Bm7]       [Am7]      [G]  
Never meant to last,      never meant to last  

[Verse 5]  
[G]  
I have been drunk now for over two weeks  
[G]  
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks  
         [C]                                                   
But I've got to stop wishin', got to go fishin', I'm down to  
             [G]  
rock bottom again  
                [Am7]       [Bm7]  [Am7]        [G]  
With just a few friends,       just a few friends  

[Instrumental]  
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[Verse 6]  
[G]  
I go for younger women, lived with several awhile  
         [C]                                                   
Though I ran 'em away, they come back one day, I still could  
          [G]  
manage to smile  
                [Am7]     [Bm7]    [Am7]          [G]  
It just takes a while,      it just takes a while  

[Verse 7]  
[G]  
Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I've found  
   [C]                                                   [G]  
My occupational hazard being my occupation's just not around  
                 [Am7]       [Bm7]       [Am7]    [G]  
I feel like I've drowned,      gonna head uptown  
                 [Am7]       [Bm7]       [Am7]    [G]  
I feel like I've drowned,      gonna head uptown  

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