Chords for Mark Farner “I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home)” on the Howard Stern Show (2006)

Mark Farner from Grand Funk Railroad.
He's the brains behind the whole outfit.
The song you're gonna do today, [Am] I'm Your Captain, you wrote that and you get the writing credit for that, right?
[G] Absolutely.
So [E] you do get the checks for that.
Yes.
Alright, I'm gonna shut up and let you guys do I'm Your Captain, going back quite a few years.
When did you write this song?
_ _ [G] 1971.
1971, [Bm] I'm Your Captain.
Or was it 70?
_ Doesn't matter.
It [D] don't matter.
Alright.
Come on back to me.
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_ Everybody [A] _ listen [D] to me and return [G] me [D] my ship.
_ [C] [D] I'm your captain, [G] _ [D] I'm your captain.
[C] Though [D] I'm feeling [G] _ [D] mighty sick.
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ [D] We've been locked [A] out, [D] days [G] uncounted.
[D] And this month [G] since [D] I've been [A] home.
[D] Can you hear [C] me?
[D] Can you hear [A] me?
[D] Oh, am [G] I falling in love? _ _
_ [A] _ If you return [G] me to my [A] home port,
[Em] I'm gonna kiss you [Em] mother [G] earth.
Take me back [C] now, oh take me [D] back now,
To the [G] port of my [A] birth.
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_ Am I [Bb] in my cabin dreaming?
[D] _ _ Or [Bb] are you really _
[Dm] scheming
To take [Bb] my ship away [F] from me?
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You [Dm] _ _ _ [Bb] better think about [Dm] it.
I just [Bb] can't live. _
_ [Dm] _ _ So [Bb] please don't take my ship [F] from me.
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_ [D] _ _ _ [A] I _ _
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can feel your hand from a stranger.
[C] _
[D] And it's [G] tightening [D] around my throat.
Heaven help [G] me, [D] heaven help [G]
me.
[D] Take this [G] stranger [D] from my birth.
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[D] I'm your captain, [G] _ [D] I'm your [G] captain.
[D] Though I'm feeling _ mighty sick.
Everybody _ [G] _ [D] listen to [C] me.
[D] And return me my ship.
I'm your captain, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I'm [D] your captain, [C] yeah, yeah, yeah, [D] yeah.
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_ [D] _ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I'm your captain, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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_ [D] _ I'm getting closer to [C] my _ [G] home. _ _
_ [C] _ [D] _ I'm getting closer to my home.
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[C] I'm _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
_ _ getting closer to [C] my _ home.
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I'm getting closer to [C] my _ [G] home.
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I'm getting closer to [C] my home.
_ _ [G] I'm _ [D] _ _ _
getting closer [G] to my home. _
_ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ I'm getting closer to [C] my home. _
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] I'm getting closer to [C] my home.
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_ _ [D] I'm _ getting closer to [C] my home. _ _
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[N] One more time! _ _ _ _