Chords for Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay Caroline Jones & Steve Cropper Art & Soul

He was talking about and singing about
the ferries going from Oakland to Sausalito and
_ So and so every even as a kid when I got to ride on a ferry and all that and see ferries
Coming across the river or lake or whatever.
What do they do when they go to park?
They push up a big wake
The lake can be totally still and when it goes to park the way that it pushes up a big way
So I watched the ships which was a roll in roll in and then I watch them leave again roll away again when they pull out
To do the same thing.
It's amazing.
That's what he was singing about the ferry
And and Otis didn't live to see this song
succeed
He didn't hear mixed.
He didn't hear the electric guitar licks
The horns I think we had live so he did hear the horns
The waves and seagulls was an afterthought and the reason was if you've heard the outtakes
He's trying to make a sound like a gull on a microphone and how did that work out?
Well at the time it didn't work out at all
Sound like a dying crow
At least we got his whistles at the end
And that's and and he was trying to whistle and it you know and Ronnie Capone the engineer said one thing for sure Otis
You'll never be a whistler and now showed him.
Yeah, exactly
see
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[B] _ _ I'll [C] be sitting _ _
[A] _ _ _ [G] watching the ships are [B] rolling
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[A] _ _ _ [G] I'm just sitting on the dock of a [E] bed watching the time _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [G] Sitting on a dock of [A] a bay
Wasting [G] _ time
_ [E] _ _ I [G] left my [B] home in Georgia
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_ _ _ _ _ [A] [G] Sit on a [E] dock of a bay [G] wasting time _
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But [C] I ain't gonna change
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[Em] Everything still remains the [G] same
And I can't [C] do what some people tell me to do
[F] So I [D] guess I'll remain the [G] same
Sitting here [B] resting my bones
And this [C] loneliness won't [A] leave me alone
_ [D] Two thousand [G#m] miles I roam
Just [C] to make this [A] dark my home
So I guess [G] I'm just gonna sit on the dock [B] of the bay
[E] Watching [G] the tide roll [B] away
_ _ [G] Sitting on the dock [E] of the bay _ [G] Wasting _ time
[F#m] _ _ Play [G] it Steve _
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