Chords for Ship In The Bottle

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Years ago a child's brown [F] eyes stared at the mantelpiece
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Wondered how the ship got [F] in the bottle _ [Eb] When he tried to find the answers
Nobody would tell him And the ship just sat there in the bottle _ _ _
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Yesterday a man's brown eyes [Db] stared at the [Eb] mantelpiece
Stared at the ship in the bottle
_ _ The corners of his eyes teared [Db] when at last he realized
[Eb] He was sailing on that ship in [Ab] the bottle
_ [Eb] _ [Ab] And I'm sailing on that ship [Eb] in the bottle
_ [Ab] With no salt upon [Db] my pitch, [Ab] no wind in [Eb] my sails
[Ab] And I'm sailing on that ship [Eb] in the bottle
_ [Ab] Could there be a storm brewing [Eb] up _ _ _ [Ab] _
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_ ahead?
[Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] Could there be a storm brewing [Eb] up ahead?
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_ _ [Eb] The ship in the bottle [F] never gets to run ashore
[Eb] Sits there on the [Ab] mantelpiece like it sat there years before
[Eb] No cocoa in its hulls, no [Ab] silver and gold
[Eb] No leeward winds against my skin, [Ab] no cannons to reload
And I'm sailing on that ship in the [Eb] bottle
_ [Ab] With no salt upon my pitch, no wind [Eb] in my sails
[Ab] And I'm sailing on that ship [Eb] in the bottle
_ [Ab] Could there be a storm brewing up [Eb] _
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_ [Eb] The _ ship [Ab] _ _
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[Eb] _ in the bottle is a reflection of [Ab] me
[Eb] Showing me all of the [F] things my eyes could never see
[Eb] Still I wish and search to [Ab] break and set my spirit free
[Eb] And take that dream on the mantelpiece and sail it on the sea
[Ab] And I'm sailing on that ship [Eb] in the bottle
With [Ab] no salt upon my pitch, no wind [Eb] in my sails
[Ab] And I'm sailing on that ship [Eb] in the bottle
_ [Ab] Could there be a storm brewing up [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
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_ ahead?
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