Tales Of The Phantom Ship Chords by Lennie Gallant

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] On a night as black as a raven's tether, [G] thunder cracked like a snap of [A] leather, and the wind whips through [F#m] the black spruce [Bm] on the shore. _ _
Waves are pounding on the beach, it hardly runs the last of the fishermen who reach safe [A] harbor, and the wind turns cold, cuts [Bm] through the core.
_ The cloud and the white all thumbered and [G] swayed, a ball of fire skips over [A] waves, and those who watch, [F#m] they can't believe [Bm] their eyes.
There's a burst of flame and a flash of [G] light, and there in the tide is a frightening [A] sight, is a tall ship, [F#m] all the flame lights [Bm] up the sky.
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Tales of the [A] Phantom Ship, [G] from [A] cock-a-doodle-doo [Bm] of her flames, [D] she sails the [A] wide all thundered and swayed, no one [Bm] knows her name.
[D]
Tales of the [A] Phantom Ship, [D] it's a ship of fire, they cry, hired [A] against the wind, she [G] sails, [A] no one [Bm] can say [F#m] why.
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [B] It's a ship that's remastered to wear a [G] year or hundred tons, or maybe [A] bigger, with fire and [F#m] every rope and [Bm] spar and sail.
_ Out of this, though the wind blows west, [G] she piles astray on an unknown cross, [A] cut [F#m] into the wave with the strength of a whole [Bm] horse's gait.
Of why she appears is none known, [G] some say it's nothing but a moonlit glow, [A] but those [Bm] who've seen her swear they tell no lies.
They tell how her bow suddenly drops [G] down and in through the noose of the street [A] she's bound, and the wind blows wild [F#m] with wailing, chilling [Bm] cries.
_ [D] Tales of [A] the Phantom Ship, [G] from [A] cock-a [Bm]-doodle-doo of her flames, [D] she sails [A] the wide all thundered and swayed, no one [Bm] knows her name.
[D] Tales of [A] the Phantom Ship, [G] it's a [D] ship of fire, they cry, hired [A] against the wind, she sails, no one [Bm] can say why.
[F#m] Some _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ [Bm] say she's an immigrant ship of [G] old, Highland Scots whose land was [A] stolen, lost at sea while seeking the [B] new land.
_ Or a ghostly American [G] privateer who plundered innocent [A] harbors here, cursed to sail astray [B] forever damned.
[D] _ [Bm] But an old man sang a song to [G] me, six hundred Acadian drowned at [A] Skeedy Ford, long ago from [Bm] St.
John's Eye.
He says they sail this choppy [G] strait, the road time and tide they navigate, [A]
searching for [F#m] the means to end their long [Bm] exile.
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Tales of [A] the Phantom Ship, [G] from [A] cock-a-doodle-doo [Bm] of her flames, [D] she sails [A] the wide all thundered and swayed, no one [Bm] knows her name.
[D]
Tales of the [A] Phantom Ship, [Bm] it's a ship of fire, they cry, [D]
hired [A] against the wind, she [Bm] sails, no one can say why.
[D]
Tales of the [A] Phantom Ship, [G] from [A] chop-de [Bm]-kiddle of her [D] flames, she sails the [A] wide all thundered and swayed, no one knows [Bm] her name.
[D] She sails the [A] wide all thundered and [G] swayed, when will [A] she sail [Bm]
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