Chords for A Pirate Looks At Forty (Live (1978 Version))

This is a little song I'm gonna do for you now.
We'll dedicate this to the captains and sailors at sea tonight.
Bringing in the goodies.
_ _ _ [N] _ I wrote this for an old friend of mine down in Key West
who just couldn't quite find his occupation here in the 20th century.
_ Couldn't work at Sears or, you know, couldn't do that.
_ [G] He turned to smuggling.
_ _ Oh, [N] yeah.
And I guess there's a little bit of pirate in everybody in this room. _ _ _
_ _ Take these names here. _
_ This goes back to me, the long John Silver and young Jim Hawkins
and won't stop till I quit stopping.
This is called A Pirate Looks at 40. _ _ _
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_ _ Mother, mother ocean
_ _ I have heard you call
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Wanted to sail upon your waters
Since I was three feet [G] tall
You've [Am] seen it all
_ _ [G] _ _ [Am] You've seen it [G] all _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Watched as I rowed you _ _ _
Switched from sails to sting
In [C] _ your belly you can hold the treasures
Few have ever [G] seen
Most [Am] of them drain
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Most [G] of them drain _ _
_ _ _ Yes, I am a pirate _ _
200 _ years too late
_ _ [C] Cannons don't thunder
There's nothing to plunder
I'm an old reported victim [G] of fate
Driving [Am] too late
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Driving [G] too late _ _
_ _ _ I've done a bit of smuggling
_ I've brought my share of grass _
_ [C] I've made enough money to buy Miami
But I've pissed it away [G] so bad
It's never [Am] been glad
_ _ [G] It's [Am] never [G] been glad _ _ _
_ _ _ I have been drunk now for over two weeks
Passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks
[C] But I got to stop wishin'
Got to go fishin' down to rock bottom [G] again
Just to be [Am] friends
_ [Bm] _ _ [C] Just to [G] be friends
We got any friends here in Miami? _ _
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I thought so _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _
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I've known some younger women
_ _ Lived with several a while
_ [C] And though I ran away
Hell, they'd come back one day
And they still couldn't manage [G] a smile
Just [Am] takes a while
Just [Bm] _
_ [Am] _ [G] takes a while
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Mother, mother, oh, shut _ up
After all the years I've found
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Occupation, oh, how's it feel? _ _
Occupation's just not [G] around
Feel like [Am] I'm drowned
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[A] But I won't [G] quit
Just _ _ _ _ feel [Am] like I'm drowned
_ [G] Gonna get drunk uptown _ _
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Thank _ _ _ you!
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_ _ _ Thank you! _
You're great!
Alright! _ _