Chords for Barrett's Privateers

[C#] _ Oh, the year [F] was _
_ _ [B] 1778, [G#] how I wish I was in [D#] Sherbrooke now.
[C#] A letter of Mark came from [Fm] the King to the scummiest [E] vessel I've ever seen, God damn them [C#] all.
I [D#] was [G#] told we'd cruise the seas for [B] American gold, [F] we'd fire no guns, [G#] shed [C#] no tears,
but I'm a broken [D#] man on a [A#m] Halifax pier, the last of Barrett's _ [C#] _ _
privateers.
_ Oh, [B] well, said Barrett, [C#] cried the town, how I wish I was in [G#]
Sherbrooke _ [C#] now.
For twenty brave men, all fishermen, [F] who would make for [C#] him the antelope's crew, God damn them [F] all.
I was [G#] told we'd cruise the seas [C#] for American gold, we'd fire no guns, shed [F#] no _ tears,
but [C#] I'm a broken man on a [F#] Halifax pier, the last of [C#] Barrett's _ _ privateers.
[G#] The _ antelope's sloop [D#] was a sickening [C#] sight, how I wish I [F#] was [G#] in Sherbrooke now.
[C#] She'd a list to the [G#] port and her [C#] sails in rags, and the [D#] cook in the [B] scuppers with the staggers and [C#] jags, God damn [Fm] them [C#] all.
I [F#] was told [G#] we'd cruise the seas for [F#] American gold, we'd fire [C#] no guns, shed no [F#] _ [C#] tears,
but I'm a broken man on a Halifax [A#m] pier, the last of [C#] Barrett's _ privateers.
_ On the king's birthday [D#] we put [C#] to sea, how I wish I was in Sherbrooke [G#] now.
[C#] We were ninety-one days to Montego [D#] Bay, [F] pumping like madmen all the [C#] way, God damn them all.
I [F#] was told [G#] we'd cruise the [Fm] seas for [F#] American gold, we'd [C#] fire no guns, shed [F#] no _ tears,
but I'm a broken [C#] man on a [F#] Halifax pier, the last of [C#] Barrett's _ _ _ privateers.
On the ninety-sixth [D#] day we sailed [F] again, how I wish I was in [G#] Sherbrooke now.
[C#] When a bloody great [Fm] Yankee hove [C#m] in sight, with our cracked [C#] fore-pounders we made to [A#m]
fight, [C#] God damn them all.
I was told [G#] we'd cruise the seas [C#] for American [F#] gold, [C#] we'd fire no guns, [F] shed [F#] no _ tears,
but [C#] I'm a broken man on a [F#] Halifax pier, the last of [C#] Barrett's privateers.
_ _ How the Yankee lay [D#] low down [C#] with gold, how I wish I was in [G#] Sherbrooke now.
[C#] She was broad and fat and loose in stays, [D#] but to catch her [C#] took the antelope two whole days, God damn them all.
I was told [G#] we'd cruise the seas [C#] for [F#] American gold, [C#] we'd fire no guns, shed [F#] no _ tears,
[C#] but I'm a [F#] broken [C#] man on a [F#] Halifax pier, the last of [C#] Barrett's _ privateers.
_ Then at [F#] length we [D#] stood two [C#m] cables away, [C#] how I wish I was in [G#] Sherbrooke now.
[C#] Our cracked fore [G#]-pounders made an awful [E] din, but with [D#] one fat [F] ball the Yank [B] stove us in, [C#] God damn them all.
I was [G#] told we'd cruise the seas [C#] for American [F#] gold, we'd fire [C#] no guns, shed [F#] no _ [C#] tears,
but I'm a broken [F#]
man [C#] on a [F#] Halifax pier, the last of [C#] Barrett's _ _ privateers.
[B] The [F#] antelope [D#] shook and pitched [C#] on her side, how I wish [F#] I was in [G#] Sherbrooke now.
_ [C#] Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs, [F#] and the main truck carried off both me [F] legs, God [C#] damn them all.
I was told [G#] we'd cruise the seas [C#] for American [F#] gold, we'd fire [C#] no guns, [B] shed no [F#] tears,
_ but I'm a broken [C#] man on a Halifax [F#] pier, the last of [C#] Barrett's _ _ [A] privateers.
So here [D#] I lay in [F] my twenty-third [C#] year, how I wish [F#] I [C#] was in [G#] Sherbrooke now.
_ It's [C#] been six years since we sailed away, [E] and I just made Halifax _ yesterday, [C#] God damn them [Fm] all.
I was told we'd [G#] cruise the seas for [F#] American gold, we'd fire no [Fm] guns, shed [F#] no tears,
[C#] but I'm a broken man on a Halifax [F#] pier, the last of [C#] Barrett's _ _ _ _ _ privateers. _ _ _
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