Chords for Shores of Africa/Eighth of January

[N] All right, one more. _ _ _ _ _
[G#] I sent a bottle out on the sea [G] tied to a leaf and tied [C] to a tree and I don't
need to go any farther.
[B] You guys already know.
But for [G#] those of you that don't, I sent a bottle out on the sea
[Em] tied to a leaf and tied to a tree.
It's going [F#] to the shores [D#] of Africa and I won't be [F#] back till the
morning or [D] in the morning depending on what part of [F#] the song it is.
You [A] want [G] me to go up here because
I make my life so much easier. _ _ _
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At the end of the song we'll do another tune from [D] Joe [G] Dotson,
our neighbor back home, his version of the 8th of January.
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_ _ A bottle out on the sea, tied to a leaf and tied to a tree.
It's going to the shores of Africa and I won't be back till the morning. _ _ _ _ _ _
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I stepped out in the city today with the glass and the stones and the dogs [C] and babies and
the persons that sing [G] upon the streams and the waves.
You better stay home today.
I [C] sent a bottle out on [G] the sea, tied to a leaf and tied to a tree.
It's going [C] to the shores of [G] Africa and I won't be back till the morning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[G] I walked out along the sand when my zoom ditch ran out with a band.
When all these keep tearing up all of this land, [Am] it's gonna [G] be red and I'm right.
I sent a bottle out on the [D] sea, tied to a leaf [C] and tied to a tree.
[G] It's going to the shores of Africa and I won't be back till the morning.
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I walked out along the road, taking all the hard times, bearing up the load.
You carry the world on your very shoulders, no one's gonna move you home.
I sent a bottle out on the sea, tied to a leaf and tied to a tree.
It's going to the shores of Africa and I won't [D] be back [G] till the morning.
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Maybe I've been wondering what's it for, what the animals we've hardened for.
We're talking [C] peace, [G] we're doing the war, we're going to be dead and gone.
I sent a bottle out on the sea, tied to [Am] a leaf and tied to [C] a tree.
It's going to the shores of Africa [G] and [Am] I won't be back [G] till the morning.
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[G] I went into the forest and found a tree tied to a sail and carried it away to the waters of the ocean. _ _ _ _
I sent a bottle out on the sea, tied to [Am] a leaf and [C] tied to a tree.
It's going to the shores [G] of Africa and I won't [D] be back [G] till the morning.
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I threw a bottle out on the tide, the bottle told me she was tied for a huge, a giant, sky [Am]-dove.
I [G]
sent a bottle out on the sea, tied to a leaf and tied to a tree.
It's going to the shores of Africa and I won't be back till the morning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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