Chords for Ode To Big Blue Sung by Gordon Lightfoot

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_ _ _ _ [B] The oceans of the world were the home of Big Blue. _ _ _
_ _ _ He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew.
And the place that he loved best was the waters to the west. _ _ _ _
Around the blue [F#m] Pacific he did [F#] roam. _ _ _
_ _ Big Blue moved alone for a mighty blue was he.
And _ the battles of the whales was an awesome sight to see.
And he took them one by one and he drove them all away. _
_ _ The mating of the day he was the king.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Big Blue had fifty wives and he sired forty sons. _
_ _ _ _ Though most of them fell victim to the cruel harpoon guns.
He was too much wise to get caught by the gunner's eyes. _ _ _
_ _ _ So he lived at sea a hundred [Bm] years.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ His mouth was as large as a tunnel so they say. _
_ _ _ _ _ His hide was thick as leather and [Bm] his eyes quick and small.
And [B] his back was all scarred by the times he got away.
_ And _ _ _ he knew the smell of whalers did Big Blue.
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[B] Big Blue passed away to his natural decay.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Beside the Arctic Circle as he traveled up that way.
And there never was a man who was born with a gunner's hand. _
_ _ _ _ Whoever took a fan [Bm] to Big Blue.
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the gray whale has to run and the sperm is almost done.
_ _ _ _ _ The finbacks and the Greenland rights have all passed and gone.
They've been taken by the men for the money they could spend. _
_ _ _ _ And the killing never ends it just goes on. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ The oceans of the earth were the [F#] home of Big Blue. _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew.
And the place that he loved best was the waters to the west. _ _ _ _
_ _ Around the blue Pacific he did roam. _
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