Christmas At Sea Chords by Sting

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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ _ [C] All day we fought [D] the tides between [C] the North Head and the South
_ All day we [F] hauled the frozen sheets [C] to escape the [D] storm's wet mouth
[C] All day as [Fm] cold as charity _ [C] in bitter pain and dread
_ For very life [F] and nature _ [Bb] we tacked [F] from head [C] _ _ to head
_ [D] _
Skarduqa, Thu'i [C] Kashi, _ _ _ Ethoro, _ [Gm] Ethoro
K'et soribua _ _ _ margudugo, [Cm] Etho-he _ -ri [Gm]-yu-o
You of great valor
_ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ Skarduqa, _ _ Thu'i Kashi, _ _ Ethoro, _ _ _ Ethoro
K'et soribua _ _ [Gm] _ margudugo, [C] Etho _ -he-ri-yu [Eb]-o
[F] We gave the South a wider _ berth, for there the tide race roared
_ [Bb] But every tack we made we brought _ [F] the North Head close [Bb] aboard
[F] We saw the cliffs and houses [Cm] then, the [F] breakers running high
_ And the coast guard [Bb] in his garden, _ [F] his glass [Bb] against his [F] _ [Eb] eye
[G] _ _ _
[F] Skarduqa, Thu'i [Cm] Kashi, _ _ Ethoro, _ _ Ethoro
K'et [C] soribua _ _ margudugo, _ [F]
Etho-he [C]-ri-yu-o
The frost was [D] on the village roofs, _ [C] as white as [F] ocean _ foam
_ [C] The good red fires were burning bright, and every lung [Bb] shone
_ The [C] windows [Fm] sparkled clear, _ [C] and the chimneys volleyed out
[F] _ And a vow we sniffed the _ vitriols, [C] as the vessel went _ _ _ [F] about
_ [C] _ _
_ Skarduqa, Thu'i Kashi, _ _ Ethoro, _ _ [F] Ethoro
[C] K'et soribua _ _ _ [Gm] margudugo, [Cm] _
Etho-he _ -ri [Eb]-yu-o
The [F] bells upon the church were rung, with a mighty jovial cheer
_ For it's just that I should tell you [Bb] how, _ [F] all these in the year
_ This day of our adversity, [Eb] _ was blessed [F]
[Bb] Christmas morn
_ [F] And the house above the coast [G] guards, [F] was the house where I was [Gm] _ born
_ Thu'i dho _ [F] _ _ [C]-dho, _ _ [Cm] _
_ dho [C]-dho, dho-dho, dho-dho, dho-dho _
Skarduqa, Thu'i Kashi, _ [Cm] Ethoro, he-ri _ -yu-o
[F] Thu'i dho [Gm]-dho, dho-dho, dho-dho, _ [F] _
dho-dho
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
Skarduqa, Thu'i Kashi, _ Ethoro, _ _ Ethoro
K'et soribua _ _ margudugo, _ Ethoro, he-ri-yu-o _
_ _ _ _ Well I knew the talk they [C] had, the talk that was [F] of me,
Of [C] the shadow and the household, _ and the sun that went to sea,
_ _ And oh the wicked fool I seemed, _ in every kind of [F] _ way,
[C] To be here and hauling _ frozen ropes on blessed Christmas _ _ [Bb] day.
_ _ He started [C] out the play, he said, she said,
Ho, ho, ho, ho, he had started one,
But the dogs were all in him,
You [Cm] were in for a pain, father. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ He started out the play, he said, she said,
Ho, ho, ho, ho, he had started one,
But _ the dogs were all _ in him,
_ You _ were in for a pain, father. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ He started out the play, he said, [C] she said,
Ho, _ ho, ho, ho, he had started one,
But _ _ _ [F] the dogs were all in him.
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